There is a popular myth that Eskimos have 500 words to describe snow. Today, in the Russian language, I discovered five words to express the typical Russian mood—can you immediately explain the difference to a foreigner?
Words: melancholy 😕, sorrow🙁, sadness☹️, yearning😞, and despondency😟.
P.S. speaking of the Eskimo language. It doesn’t have words for “yesterday” and “war” (indeed, where would “yesterday” come from if there they have six months of day and six months of night?) Also, it has 63 verb tenses. Regarding snow, it was reported in 2015 by researcher Igor Krupnik that in the Eskimo language (depending on the dialect), the vocabulary for snow comprises 40-50 words. It’s noteworthy that, for example, in the Sami language (the Sami are a people living in northern Europe), there are altogether 180 words, and in Scottish, as many as 451.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 