This might be a nice antidote for your rage:
The Eskimos' Hundred Words for Snow
by Phil James

wa-ter melted snow

Bootyboy wrote:

This might be a nice antidote for your rage:

I want to point out that the link at the top of the page claims that it is the work of a satirist, and I can find no reference that the word tla is the word for snow in any dialect of the Inuit language.

There are also other things, such as the fact that there are some letters used that don't seem to occur in the orthography of any dialect of the language, that the most commonly-used word there, <tla> violates basic phonotactics of the language (Essentially, that consonant cluster isn't allowed in Inuktitut. It would be like claiming the word for snow in English is "svelt" and that we have pharses like "hard svelt" for freezing rain and "hard laying svelt" for ice).

And there's also a number of other things. Anyways, to be honest, the orthography of that looks more like it'd be some bastard mix between the Inuit language and Nahuatl.

I had an Anthropology professor lecture about how this was a myth....for half an hour. Can't remember his name though.

Zaole wrote:

...one of the words, meaning "melted snow", is "wa-ter"

Well, it's unlikely but it could be a borrowing. Some of the words are obviously jokes, in any case, while some are more subtle but apparent.