Comment by moron4hire

This article says almost the exact same things I said in my post. I also don't see where it definitely says the Inuit language has a richer vocabulary for snow than other languages. It just ends with a joke about how such a thing might come to pass. A casual observer here who doesn't bother reading the link might take it as a refutation from your wording, but it actually very strongly supports what I had to say.

As for the "Russian blue" study, I find it strange that the article is so skeptical of unreplicated results in linguistics and yet seems to accept the "Russian blue" study uncritically. I can see at least one glaring flaw: all of the Russian speakers were bi-lingual with English, with at least some of them being so since they were young children. They also discarded 16% of their test data because they deemed responses "too slow", with this discarding more heavily weighted towards the Russian speakers.