Snow
Eskimos, known as Inuit these days, have 40 words for snow. This demonstrates how profoundly their lives are connected with the white stuff!
Check this out.
Murder: kill, slay, assasinate, dispatch, hit, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, rub out, liquidate, execute, ice, cool, do in, do away with, bump off, knock off, finish off, massacre, slaughter, waste, wipe out, zap, silence, cap, whack, snuff, extinguish, exterminate, decimate, shed blood, take or a ride, take out. And of course: shoot, gun down, plug, fill with lead, mow down, stab, knife, slash, cut out the giblets of, eviscerate, garrote, hang, strangle, smother, suffocate, choke, asphyxiate, drown, defenestrate, bludgeon, crucify, poison, behead, guillotine, lynch, starve, gas, blow up, bomb, atomize, incinerate.
That is almost 70 words about murder and there are more, but I think the point is made.
1 Comments:
yikes! how did you get from fluffy white snow........ to murder?
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