Re: Missing the sky

Hi, Muke ...

If I were you, I would rather try to think what my culture think about sky.
That's why I am starting my project by sketching the cultural "features" of
the civilization that will speak my language. Some people thought of sky of
a carpet where stars were embedded. Sky changes its color from day to night
and could be thought of the clothes of a God that changes his/her clothes
from day to night.. Or can you think of sky of a courtain to gods world?
There are endless posibilities, I believe.

Antonio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Muke Tever" <alrivera@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: [CONLANG] Missing the sky


> Hey everybody.
> I havent been around lately, as if anyone noticed ;p
>
> Anyway tonight I was thinking about the new Rami grammar (yeah, I'm
restarting
> Daimyo yet again, nth time's a charm), and, trying to keep the new
principles
> for vocabulary in mind....ran into a very odd roadblock on my first
> translation.
>
> 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.
>
> I don't even really know how to translate it.
> What *is* the sky, in concrete terms?
>
> All the circumlocutions I can come up with can't describe the sky in
general,
> only in part--after things that are in the sky (occasionally) or the color
> that the sky is (occasionally).
>
> Well.. I am sort of left with some kind of derivative of "above".
>
> Urf.
>
>      *Muke!
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