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Eskimos had over two hundred different words for snow, without which
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their conversation would probably have got very monotonous. So they
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would distinguish between thin snow and thick snow, light snow and heavy
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snow, sludgy snow, brittle snow, snow that came in flurries, snow that
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came in drifts, snow that came in on the bottom of your neighbor’s boots
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all over your nice clean igloo floor, the snows of winter, the snows of
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spring, the snows you remember from your childhood that were so much
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better than any of your modern snow, fine snow, feathery snow, hill
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snow, valley snow, snow that falls in the morning, snow that falls at
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night, snow that falls all of a sudden just when you were going out
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fishing, and snow that despite all your efforts to train them, the
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huskies have pissed on.
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