In which would-be modernizing language does "eskimo" mean "ice cream"?

Language Log 2025-09-27

Summary:

Kim Jong-Un has a mission to eliminate bourgeois, foreign, and southern terminology. This story in the Daily Mail by Sabrina Penty, citing the Daily NK, is hardly scholarly, but it gives some examples, and there are other stories online. The Metro in the UK reported that "I love you" (discovered in a love letter during a routine Big-Brother check […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71253&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-which-would-be-modernizing-language-does-eskimo-mean-ice-cream

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Tags:

borrowing

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

09/27/2025, 02:01

Date published:

09/26/2025, 21:36