From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OmY1u-0002Bx-NL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:17:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DC49E082F; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D00E082F for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:16:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so2731033ewy.40 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:16:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Yn41haP47TUbLhd54Syq3gqKEZchu3O+zihmCPo5gxk=; b=Inyv4WfzW7ajWuzyh4+BZbVXPRfxjNFjwtJW6cd0iUVhMlO1XsMS5WeYTV2d0zZXv+ GNGDFbqyfevwAue2x1u4y6Dcs0VfLwgnolG4dlfa6HJkn8DdsqB3T4BIrnwST+2Y0rg6 FSmqu+Vr9kZ/VerJt7lFNlFX65JyBHdvtsmWM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Xoe6t6hFUvbl9Yc3jGhLLE1Al0ayDj8MxGV/GCgT0guX6ff2jLvnDVasleetBvN67m Fib5RpDczLl0adqGCMYJwyISVefi+rn1KQyG+cy4NiK12EI2bJDDxuOwC8mPzduyLgAm Ls08zjgHz31LOoulR5RE+m6dlHTGBcjEpFHH0= Received: by 10.213.17.7 with SMTP id q7mr1889858eba.23.1282335418278; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-202-152.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.202.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v8sm5418234eeh.2.2010.08.20.13.16.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:16:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:14:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201008202100.16552.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201008202132.47752.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <201008202132.47752.wonko@wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008202214.00434.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 391c2951-faff-4512-a3c2-9ebfd14bab4d X-Archives-Hash: c5333ce601131200dd506c398be6829d Apparently, though unproven, at 21:32 on Friday 20 August 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: > Wow, what's going on here? > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > Like Eskimo's with 20+ words for different kinds of snow. > > Say "snow" to any Eskimo, see what happens :-) > > Actually, they have only two words for snow: qanik for falling snow and > aput for lying snow. > > Wonko Yeah, I've heard the argument and counter-arguments too. But I'm not Inuit and don't speak their lingo. The principle still stands though. Replace Eskimo and snow with English and the massive litany of words encompassing "love and affection". There's way more than 20 of those. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com