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Re: Missing the sky

From:Antonio WARD <antonio_ward@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 15:15
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! > -- > http://www.frath.net/ >