Witty thread

[AtW]

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[DimPrawn]

Is that your knob AtW?

 

[Pope Benedict XVI]

Is that your knob AtW?

His holiness just spat lunch out

 

[Nina]

Is that your knob AtW?

What for many names for reproductive organ?

 

[wobbegong]

What for many names for reproductive organ?

WTF?

 

[EqualOpportunities]

What for many names for reproductive organ?

You flying over for the Christmas do, Nina?

 

[TheOmegaMan]

What for many names for reproductive organ?

Well it's like the words for snow in Eskimo. They have so many because there is lot of snow about.

On this board you will find a lot of reproductive organs.

 

[snaw]

Well it's like the words for snow in Eskimo. They have so many because there is lot of snow about.

On this board you will find a lot of reproductive organs.

No they don't. Urban myth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

 

[DimPrawn]

49 words for snow and ice from West Greenlandic

'sea-ice' siku (in plural = drift ice)
'pack-ice/large expanses of ice in motion' sikursuit, pl. (compacted drift ice/ice field = sikut iqimaniri)
'new ice' sikuliaq/sikurlaaq (solid ice cover = nutaaq.)
'thin ice' sikuaq (in plural = thin ice floes)
'rotten (melting) ice floe' sikurluk
'iceberg' iluliaq (ilulisap itsirnga = part of iceberg below waterline)
'(piece of) fresh-water ice' nilak
'lumps of ice stranded on the beach' issinnirit, pl.
'glacier' (also ice forming on objects) sirmiq (sirmirsuaq = Inland Ice)
'snow blown in (e.g. doorway)' sullarniq
'rime/hoar-frost' qaqurnak/kanirniq/kaniq
'frost (on inner surface of e.g. window)' iluq
'icy mist' pujurak/pujuq kanirnartuq
'hail' nataqqurnat
'snow (on ground)' aput (aput sisurtuq = avalanche)
'slush (on ground)' aput masannartuq
'snow in air/falling' qaniit (qanik = snowflake)
'air thick with snow' nittaalaq (nittaallat, pl. = snowflakes; nittaalaq nalliuttiqattaartuq = flurries)
'hard grains of snow' nittaalaaqqat, pl.
'feathery clumps of falling snow' qanipalaat
'new fallen snow' apirlaat
'snow crust' pukak
'snowy weather' qannirsuq/nittaatsuq
'snowstorm' pirsuq/pirsirsursuaq
'large ice floe' iluitsuq
'snowdrift' apusiniq
'ice floe' puttaaq
'hummocked ice/pressure ridges in pack ice' maniillat/ingunirit, pl.
'drifting lump of ice' kassuq (dirty lump of glacier-calved ice = anarluk)
'ice-foot (left adhering to shore)' qaannuq
'icicle' kusugaq
'opening in sea ice imarnirsaq/ammaniq (open water amidst ice = imaviaq)
'lead (navigable fissure) in sea ice' quppaq
'rotten snow/slush on sea' qinuq
'wet snow falling' imalik
'rotten ice with streams forming' aakkarniq
'snow patch (on mountain, etc.)' aputitaq
'wet snow on top of ice' putsinniq/puvvinniq
'smooth stretch of ice' manirak (stretch of snow-free ice = quasaliaq)
'lump of old ice frozen into new ice' tuaq
'new ice formed in crack in old ice' nutarniq
'bits of floating' naggutit, pl.
'hard snow' mangiggal/mangikaajaaq
'small ice floe (not large enough to stand on)' masaaraq
'ice swelling over partially frozen river, etc. from water seeping up to the surface' siirsinniq
'piled-up ice-floes frozen together' tiggunnirit
'mountain peak sticking up through inland ice' nunataq
'calved ice (from end of glacier)' uukkarnit
'edge of the (sea) ice' sinaaq

It depends on the definition of "words"

 

[snaw]

Yep - and english has 40 - read the link. Depends on the definition and which language but basically it's a load of bollocks give or take a few words (Depending on language).

There are two major errors in this myth. The first is that Eskimo speakers have more words for snow than English speakers do. In fact, they have about the same number, perhaps a few more and perhaps a few less depending on whichEskimo language one is focusing on. And as in English, these words are related to each other. Blizzards and flurries are two different types of snow, but they are snow nonetheless, and we recognize that. Speakers of Eskimo languages categorize snow in the same way.

The second error comes from a misconception of what should be considered "words". When it comes to describing snow in Eskimo languages, the words are limitless. And as in other polysynthetic languages, this rule is the same regardless of whether they are describing snow, cheese, trees, cars, or anything at all. This is because their language is structured differently than English. Because Eskimo is polysynthetic, it describes things in words of unlimited length.(/QUOTE]