In the house of the head shaman...

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jporter wrote:
> 
> Inspite of the numerous Eskimo words for snow, or the many Herero terms for
> cow shit, Whorf (and Sapir) probably got it upside down, but his studies of
> Hopi and other Native American languages, including Mayan, are still
> interesting, and probably influenced the Pynchon of V.
> 
> jody

See Pinker, Steven,  *The Language Instinct*

Pinker has fun with "The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax," and
explains why the Eskimos do not have more words for snow
than do English speakers. In the same chapter, Ch 3,
"Mentalese," he talks about Whorf, time, Hopi...