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The Eskimos: The Language Of Primitiveness

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“Primitiveness ' on the usage of language that relates to greetings, grumbles and commands which commonly happened in society actually is a mere misconception. Every language is in fact, equally complete and perfect as a communication device or instrument to state things in our mind we would like to imply to other people, to put it differently, we should not harshly judge a language as primitive when it comes to precision and subtlety, for instance; if an Eskimos is more able to convey the knowledge of ‘snow’ way better in their native language rather than the English man himself though their terms for different kinds of snow in English are as rich as the Eskimo . In general, it 's only the result of the environment the Eskimos live in

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