The &quot;Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow&quot; is actually bad linguistics--for pointers, see Mark Liberman&#x27;s post on Language Log (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;itre.cis.upenn.edu&#x2F;~myl&#x2F;languagelog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;003286.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;itre.cis.upenn.edu&#x2F;~myl&#x2F;languagelog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;003286.h...</a>).