love, life and forever

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I recently read that there are certain languages in which love and life are the same word, and just a hair's breath away from the word for forever. Anyone know any such languages?

― beaumonster, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Inuit? I know they have an awful lot of ways to say "snow".

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

that's a myth, the snow thing.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

i think. maybe i'm wrong.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

snow, sleet, frost, hoarfrost, ice, powder, etc...

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

What exactly would one derive from knowledge of this fact? That everyone who speaks that language lives love forever?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

it is from a book and i am trying to figure out the answer...need help!

― beaumonster, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

The Inuit thing is, yeah, kind of mythical (see Geoffrey Pullum), though now I find that kind of weird, for exactly the reason Michael demonstrates.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

All english terms for snow are also euphemisms for drugs.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I've been trying to score some crystallized precipitation all year.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I should have said I've heard that they have many ways to say "snow" since I have no idea if it's true.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Well the myth was like two hundred. The reality is something like seven or eight different types of snow, which actually is probably about the same as English.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I've heard Inuits like to ski, if you know what I mean.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

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