The Inuit of the Arctic Circle using as many as 21 different nouns for snow. Familiarity with this naturally meant that their language developed words for each different characteristic shape, texture, hardness, compactness, temperature, appearance, color, flavor, etc. of what we simple catalog with a single noun: snow, in fact.
The Bedouins of the Sahara desert Berber race have, in their dialect ancestral prearabico, 13 different ways to define what 'typical element of their landscape that we call simply a common noun: the sand. Again this is a particularly familiar, making it seize the peculiarities and differences depending on the features that are beyond us.
Similar examples are found in different languages, different cultures specific to catch peoples have a rich vocabulary as referring to all the elements that relate to such activity, so for the people of farmers, for those of hunters, farmers and so on.
This premise is necessary because I was reflecting on a characteristic of the Italian language, even without enrichment which could provide substantial contributions of the different dialects spoken in the territory of the Republic: I do not want the reader to remove taste and produces a list that I'm sure, will be largely incomplete. Procedure, the bulk ...
Thief, scoundrel, rascal, scoundrel, swindler, bandit, Maramaldo, villain, swindler, lobbyists, robber, criminal, extortionists, criminal, racketeer, cravattaro, scoundrel, double agent, dishonest scoundrel, rogue, cheat, sophistication, forger, robber , to say the phrases as surplus prison scapegallows, no good, because it would never end and so on ...
short, all people of their specialties, quickly reverberated in the spoken language.
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