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• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
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• Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 16:06:12 -0500 (EST)

Didier PH Martin scripsit:

> Don, how would you, in English, markup a text talking about snow? In the
> Inuit language (you know these people living up north of Canada) there is
> approx. 30 different words to qualify snow.

*sigh*.  The correct number of words is four.
See http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/eskimo_words_for_snow_more.html .

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