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SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS Author(s): Robert M. Chute Source: ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 1966), p. 47 Published by: Institute of General Semantics Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42574177 Accessed: 22-08-2018 16:18 UTC

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SAPIR- WHORF HYPOTHESIS

SNOW writes many words for Eskimos an alphabet of flakes

lexicon of textures list of wind's inflections

and idiomatic shapes falling frozen

drifting piled on trees packed by runners voiced by feet.

Language colors what we know. The Eskimo has half-a-hundred words for snow

makes nice

distinctions concerning ice.

Robert M. Chute

Auburn, Maine

YAMICA WARBLER

Yamica yamica Yamica warbler

Whoever heard of Wilson

Name thudding his black cap Down on his golden-yellow head

Business street bird without identity When he should be known by his yamica

Beanie blackberry-bright leaf to leaf Yam yam yamica

Emilie Glen

New York, New York 47

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