Re: lexicon

Your book has already been written.  It was titled The Colors of Space, and
it was truely horrid.

Adam

>From: David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: lexicon
>Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:25:14 EDT
>
>In a message dated 4/5/01 6:37:40 AM, dreamertwo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
><< Cool!  Lrahran has 20 some odd "basic", i.e. non-derived color-terms
>(including about five different term for different kinds of black!).  I
>love
>color too. >>
>
>I've always to have a color that didn't exist before.  In fact, I had an
>idea
>for a story about that.  The color would be called "smurple", and the main
>character would be so angry because "smurple" doesn't look anything like
>"purple", but since the name is similar, people think it does.  Then I
>thought of the different ways it would be translated: "Smursmur" (Ger.),
>"esmorado" (Spa.), "smiolet" (Fr.)...  I then I was thinking of  how much
>fun
>you could have with "esmorado": "Que color es?" "Esmorado"  "Es morado?"
>"No!
>  Es esmorado!"  Hee, hee...
>
>Anyway, back to relevance.  The agent/patient thing gave me ideas, I'm
>sorry
>to say, and I just started yesterday creating a language that makes only an
>agent/patient distinction (the same with ten moods, and singular, dual,
>trial
>and plural), and I must say, I love it.  I wish all languages only made
>that
>distinction.  It makes me wonder wherein the argument lie...  What is
>agency?
>  Does anyone really act of their own accord?  But I don't say this merely
>to
>spark the argument again, nor do I wish to go back to the archives and look
>it up.  I just wanted to mention this new happy language of mine.
>
>-David
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