[Sussex] Leased line / Kilostream

Geoff Teale tealeg at member.fsf.org
Tue Mar 25 20:02:01 UTC 2003


Mark Harrison wrote:
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> The point about the original article that spawned this was that there 
> was no "blanket" term in Inuit to mean "all types of snow". There were, 
> however, two blanket terms, one which means "any type of falling snow", 
> one which means "any type of settled snow"... but heh, that's the same 
> situation as classical greek!
>  
> For more detail, visit any of the Internet's language lists, or for that 
> matter, any First Year Uni course in linguistics...

You learn the weirdest stuff on this list... normally when I read things 
like this I think its time to put the bottle down and go to bed.. but I 
haven't even been drinking..!

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