Swift LiteralsWritten by Mattt August 22nd, 2018 (revised) This article has been translated into: 한국어 In 1911, linguist Franz Boas observed that speakers of Eskimo–Aleut languages used different words to distinguish falling snowflakes from snow on the ground. By comparison, English speakers typically refer to both as “snow,” but create a similar distinction between raindrops and puddles. Over time, this simple
