Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for June 27, 2022

Turns out that their language is agglutinative, so those “words for snow” are actually phrases, such as “deep snow” and “wet heavy snow” and “snow that gets on your eyelashes but doesn’t stick” and so forth.

Two words: “Eskimo Pie”.

That’s because they will eat at least 1000 different things.

One word for snow, but lots of modifiers. Check “agglutinative language”. My own favorite is from Adam Koford, “I haz 50 words for snow and they iz all obscene.”

Last man standing in the Donner Party has 86 words for food and just one expletive for snow.

Frank sez don’t eat the yellow snow.

Except they all sound the same…

If your life was as boring as an Inuit, you have a 100 words for everything too!

Ok, dogs, but you have no words whatsoever for food texture:

“I don’t know, I ate it too fast. If you can’t swallow it in two bites, it isn’t worth eating”.

Woof! nope, only one word for food.

Paging Dr. Doolittle.

1,000 words, huh?

Let’s see… food, foood, fooood, FOOD!, fffood… I’m pretty much done.