Oscar Carlsson
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I've heard multiple variations of this urban myth, usually it concerns the Eskimo languages and that it has multiple words for snow. In Swedish we have (afaik) one root for snow (snö) which we can combine with other words to create new combinations, to describe the snows composition (kramsnö, blötsnö, pudersnö...and people can agree which type of snow is which) or body (snödriva, snöhög...).
In case anyone is interested any would like to bury this myth, here's a quote from wikipedia:
The claim that Eskimo languages have an unusually large number of words for snow is a widespread idea first voiced by Franz Boas and has become a cliché; it is often used to illustrate the way in which language embodies different local concerns in different parts of the world. In fact, the Eskimo–Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does, but the structure of these languages tends to allow more variety as to how those roots can be modified in forming a single word.[1][2] A good deal of the ongoing debate thus depends on how one defines "word", and perhaps even "word root".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
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