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To: The Philosopher who wrote (37741)	5/10/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

I think the Inuit are just pulling the ethnoglaciologists leggings. You understand that the ethnolinguists pay their informants for every word they can come up with -- one .30-'06 cartridge for every word. The Inuit gave them the words for every kind of snow --- omooho -- crusted snow peed on by walruses, omooha, crusted snow peed on by hair seals, etc. Because Inuit like German is agglutinive they were capable of producing several kinds of snow per mammal. Bedu did the same thing about sand to their guys. Among the endogenous and aboriginal people of the world there is a lot of informal exchange about how best to pump trade goods out of linguists. A friend of mine, a central Pacific linguist who has recorded several languages, helped his informants design some carvings loaded with thinly veiled sexual images --- giant trees spouting gouts of lava from their tops, being caught by high-breasted young women seeking impregnation. The natives think them very nasty, but they sell quite well to the tourists. The anthropologists purchased the classic items, of course.