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Re:Courting Haskell by sanqui on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:06PM (#22059287)
And wait until you discover the Eskimo languages does not, in fact, have hundreds of words for snow. It's a myth.

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf

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Re:Courting Haskell by alexashka on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:22PM (#22059452)
'elaborate vocabulary surrounding snow' != 'hundreds of words for snow'
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