Re: Weekly (sic) Vocab 28

At 11:08 PM 11/10/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Isidora reminded me of the duties I had been shirking. Thanks, Isidora. (And
>that's without sarcasm.)
You're welcome.  (And I didn't read any sarcasm into it.)

I can tell from the content of this Weekly Vocab that you've been following
the Corpses thread rather closely :)  It's been rather deceiving, because,
for the first several days, it seemed to be just Padraic and me comparing
our concultures, then suddenly more and more people started chiming
in.  Until then, I had no idea whether the whole list was actually reading
the thread or if they were just thinking, "Oh, that's Isidora and Padraic
off topic again," and deleting the messages unread.  It's been surprising
to discover just how many people seem to have been following the whole thing.

Someday, I hope to have my conlangs developed enough to be able to
translate at least some of the Weekly Vocab, but none of them are ready
yet.  I can tell you that, even were my conlangs well-developed enough to
do translation, #28 here would only get translated into Trehelish (and
possibly Nidirino) for cultural reasons.  The Cwendaso don't have too much
of a problem with the sort of crime that we are familiar with.  On the
other hand, the content of this Weekly Vocab is perfectly in line with
Trehelish culture, as I am sure you can tell if you have been following the
Corpses thread.  Even though the Trehelish language has very little grammar
at this point, I will be thinking about the semantic content of certain
vocabulary items here, such as "thug" and "mug."

You did a nice job putting this one together quickly, Christopher.  You had
it posted wihin a couple of hours after my reminder showed up on the list.

Isidora