eskimo snow david prager branner asks talk linguist list great eskimo snow hoax may imagining things people talk never seem specialists eskimo languages would like hear inuit tlingit specialist snow situation really languages geoffrey k pullum _ great eskimo vocabulary hoax _ chicago 1991 pp 168171 reports results consultation anthony woodbury bona fide expert yupik eskimo provides following statement use cocktail parties let known professor anthony woodbury department linguistics university texas austin texas 78712 prepared endorse claim central alaskan yupik eskimo language dozen words even couple dozen fairly liberal count referring snow related natural phenomena events behavior adds remarkably different size list english victor golla society study indigenous languages americas gollav axe humboldt edu