So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say the (55)______ things their speakers want to say. (56)______ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive (57)______ peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice. Whereas this is not the (58)______ fault of their language. The Eskimos, it is said, can speak about snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in (59)______ English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes mis-called ’primitive’) is inherently more precise and subtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect (60)______ in English, a show of unexpected ’primitiveness’. The position is simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar (61)______ environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms (62)______ for different kinds of snow if the environments in which English was habitually used made such distinctions as important. (63)______ Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these topics formed the part of the (64)______ Eskimos’ llife.