Monday, January 01, 2007

A Resolution (?!)

Iminngernaveersaartunngortussaavunga.


A friend just sent me a link to this article in the New York Sun (I have some strange friends), by a linguist called John McWhorter, on the dying out of minority languages around the world.

According to the article, in the language of the Inuktitut Eskimo this single word means:

"I should try not to become an alcoholic."

I couldn't make it up. Well, I could..... but, on this occasion, I didn't.

No comments: