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Old 03-26-2011, 01:42 PM   #16
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Default Re: Inventing Languages in Settings

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Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
It sounds more the reverse; having some knowledge of the culture and then using that to analyse word orgins. The writer knew already that eskimos come from a place where there is lots of snow.
Were you trying to reply to someone else? I wrote nothing about Eskimos or snow.
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