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TOPIC COMMENT Linguistics and English (话题评论语言学和英语)
T O P I C . . . C O M M E N T
The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax
Most linguistics deparllnents have an introduction-to-language course
in which students other than linguistics majors can be exposed to at
least something of the mysteries of language and communication:
signing apes and dancing bees; wild children and lateralization;
logographic writing and the Rosetta Stone; pit and spit; Sir William
Jones and Professor Henry Higgins; isoglosses and Grimms Law;
Jabberwocky and colourless green ideas; and of course, without fail,
the Eskimos and their multiple words~for snow.
Few among us, Im sure, can say with certainty that we never told an
awestruck sea of upturned sophomore faces about the multitude of
snow descriptors used by these lexically profligate hyperborean
nomads, about whom so little information is repeated so often to so
many. Linguists have been just as active as schoolteachers or general
knowledge columnists in spreading the entrancing story. What a pity
the story is unredeemed piffle.
Anthropologist Laura Martin of Cleveland State University spent
some of her research time during the 1980s attempting to slay the
constantly changing, serf-regenerating myth of Eskimo snow
terminology, like a Sigourney Weaver fighting alone against the
hideous space creature in the movie Alien (a xenomorph, they called it
in the sequel Aliens; nice word). You may recall that the creature
seemed to spring up everywhere once it got loose on the spaceship, and
was very difficult to kill.
Martin presented her paper at the annual meetings of the Ame
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