Re: Missing the sky

In a message dated 03/6/02 5:31:11 AM, alrivera@ALUMNI.SOUTHERN.EDU writes:

<< Rami can't have a word for "sky".

The sky is not a thing... it is not a direction, really... I don't think it

can be a verb...  It's just an abstract concept, an idea. >>

    That sounds so funny to hear you say that.  After all, the sky IS a real
thing: It's the belly of the Great Sky Toad that hugs the Earth.  I mean, I
thought this was basic stuff everyone learned in elementary school.  One day,
the Earth got too cold, and the Great Sky Toad took pity on it, so he flew
over to the Earth and wrapped himself around it. Of course, the Great Sky
Toad is blue (this is beyond common knowledge), and when he goes to sleep,
his camelian genes kick in, and he blends in with space, so that his foes
won't see him and eat him up while he's asleep.  And so, the word for "sky"
in all my languages is either "Great Sky Toad" or "The Belly of the Great Sky
Toad", in some form or other.  Anyway, maybe you're just not a science
person...  ;)

-David (Humor not marked)

"Zi hiwejnat zodZaraDatsi pat Zi mirejsat dZaCajani sUlo."
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
                --Jim Morrison

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