The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax

When I tell my mother that I've read
that Eskimo's only have one word for snow,
and not, like they say, more than fifty,

she doesn't want to believe me, because 
she has the house to herself: my father 
was not aware of this a century ago and she 
wants nothing changed.

She says: maybe the the Eskimo's didn't
want to overplay their hand

I say: we have fifty words for intercourse
and death. Do you want to hear them?

She says: I suddenly fear that I've expected 
too much from the weather report.