Thursday, February 05, 2009

Words For War

The "Sami" people are the indigenous people of northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland and northwestern Russia. In the USA we wrongly refer to these people as "Lapps" or "Lapplanders."  The Sami closely identify themselves with the Eskimo and American Indian people.

In Sami there are 60+ words for snow and no word for "war."
In English there are 60+ words for "war" but only one word for snow.

Do you see something wrong here?

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