In reading through Steele's followup column about Polar Bears in a warming world, I became curious and decided to look up the word Kappiananngittuq, so I googled _Inuit Kappiananngittuq_. I was blindsided by the four pages worth of google search results to forty articles that upon closer examination turned out to include 29 that mirrored the same deceptive Steele article. What is going on? Is Steele and Sherman Frederick and Anthony Watts mainlined into a social media troll factory or something?
Never mind, those questions will have to wait for another post. Here I want to share the results of my search to learn about “Kappiananngittuq.”
After I recovered my bearing and turned to the remaining eleven links, I found what I was looking for http://inuktitutilinniaqta.com - it seemed to me an authoritative source for Inuit language. To my confusion I found “Kappiananngittuq" actually translates to “It’s not scary.”
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