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The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax Once the public has decided to accept something as an interesting fact, it becomes almost impossible to get the acceptance rescinded. The persistent interestingness and symbolic usefulness overrides any lack of factuality. For instance, the notion that dinosaurs were stupid, slow-moving
article, "The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax," purporting to debunk a myth regarding the number of words Eskimos have for snow. It just so happened that I, - many years ago, of course, you understand - well, that I passed along such a "myth," if indeed it was, to other unsuspecting people. The Mathsemantic Monitor feels that good semantic prac-
The book The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language, Geoffrey K. Pullum is published by University of Chicago Press.
Martin tracks thegreat Eskimo vocabulary hoax through successively more careless repetitions embroiderings and in anumber of popular books on language. Roger B own's Words and Things (1958, 234-236), attributing theexample to Whorf, provides an early example ofcareless popularization and perversion of the issue.
The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax Author(s): Geoffrey K. Pullum Reviewed work(s): Source: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Vol. 7, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 275-281 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4047733 . Accessed: 05/08/2012 16:58
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22 de sept. de 1993 · The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax. Edward Macneal. Published 22 September 1993. Linguistics. EVEN THOUGH I fall outside its usual academic target-audience, I said yes to Lingua Franca's 1990 subscription offer, because it got to me personally.
