Re: Austin, Utopia, Uglossia, and Bats.

Sally Caves wrote:

>Do any of you have bats in your conworlds?  If so, what's the word?
I used to live in Austin too.  And I never got to see the famous bats. =20
(They live under the downtown bridges over the Colorado River, especially=
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South Congress Avenue.)

Anyway, I don't have a word for 'bat' in Tech yet.  The closest words I g=
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are:

urba  'squirrel'
k'un_  'marten, sable'  (i.e. a refined weasel)
  *k' =3D ejective k; n_ =3D alveolar n as in Tamil

Still no word for 'bat', sadly...

By the way, for my cat, a long-haired Siamese female named Samantha or Sa=
m,=20
I have a 'pet name' (no pun intended), K'un_ah (or K'un_at), which is sim=
ply=20
the feminine for k'un_.  She resembles a sort of fine-furred rodent in a=20
way.

Also, there just happens to be a language called Bats (or Batsbi).  It's =
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North (Central) Caucasian language very closely related to Chechen (Nox=E7=
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and Ingush.

Danny

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