19 Feb 07
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I was going to use "hate" but I figured I'd keep it thematic.
19 Feb 07
Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnowWinner.
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I was going to use "hate" but I figured I'd keep it thematic.
Of the Turner prize.
19 Feb 07
Originally posted by NordlysPolysynthesism is the name for that feature of languages, which is a characteristic feature of many languages within the Eskimo-Aleut and Algonquian-Wakashan stocks, and to some extent within the Aztec-Tanoan. Linguist Edward Sapir was fond of quoting the Southern Paiute word
In King Island Inupiaq (presumably in other Inupiaq dialects, too, but I don't have information about those), one word often expresses what would be expressed with a whole sentence in English. It's quite fascinating. For example:
Quiktiziqpaglutik.
(They made themselves look very fat.)
wiitokuchumpunkurüganiyugwivantümü
meaning they-who-are-going-to-sit-and-cut-up-with-a-knife-a-black-female- (or male-) buffalo.
