Original artwork, not a still
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish · 1984
He had read somewhere that the Eskimos had over two hundred different words for snow, without which their conversation would probably have got very monotonous. So they would distinguish between thin snow and thick snow, light snow and heavy snow, sludgy s
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What it means
Our interpretation.
A reported claim about hundreds of snow words leads into an unfinished comic list of distinctions. The quoted linguistic generalisation is not verified, and the absent list items stay unstated.
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