TOPIC. COMMENT 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 Rose...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.168.5080 2023-05-15T16:06:39+02:00 TOPIC. COMMENT The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.168.5080 http://ling.ed.ac.uk/%7Egpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.168.5080 http://ling.ed.ac.uk/%7Egpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://ling.ed.ac.uk/%7Egpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T15:54:46Z 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 Grimm's Law; Jabberwocky and colourless green ideas; and of course, without fail, the Eskimos and their multiple words~for snow. Few among us, I'm 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. Text eskimo* Unknown |
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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 Grimm's Law; Jabberwocky and colourless green ideas; and of course, without fail, the Eskimos and their multiple words~for snow. Few among us, I'm 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. |
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