Words for X
As many people don’t know, there aren’t all that many Eskimo (choose any appropriate language to fill in here) words for snow. But today we learned that Eskimo does have lots of different words for fear: there’s fear of the future, fear for family’s safety . . . all different roots.
Someone in my class later mentioned that when his wife was learning English, she had trouble with all the different words we have for all the subtle shades of being pissed off.