Re: Missing the sky

Muke Tever wrote:
>
>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?
The apparent dome above us. I'd argue it's a thing that just happens not to
exist. How does Rami treat things like mirages, horizons, rainbows and other
stuff that doesn't have any independent existence but nonetheless can be
seen?

>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".
I'd love a language where the word for "sky" litterally means "dome above
that isn't" or some such ...

                                                Andreas

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