Thursday, October 11, 2007

courtesy: Mike Gayle (book : Brand New Friend)

The Eskimos have over 18 different words for the color white.
Eskimos also have over fifty different words for snow. Snow is really important to those guys because sometimes the difference btw one type and another can mean the difference btw life or death. They have words for dry snow, wet snow, fluffy snow, and compact snow. Words for snow that comes down fast and and comes down slow.-They have thought of everything.
So what’s the point?
Well it’s like this. If Eskimos can come up with 50 words for snow because it is a matter of life and death, why is it that we have got only one word for love?
Yes it would be easier if we categorized it down to specifics- but would it really be so much fun?
The way I see it is that we may have only one word for love but what a word it is.

About Eskimos-They also live in igloos and offer their wives and daughters for intercourse to foreigners after the dinners main course. This is so that the blood line gets mixed as breeding amongst each other for such a small community may make certain hereditary problems more complex and effect future generations. Like in horses it is to produce a better breed.
About horses- the winning horse is not run in every race.

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