Re: OT: Corpses, etc. (was: Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)))

At 05:11 AM 11/10/03 -0800, you wrote:
>--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
> > >Ah. In most of the lands around Westmarche
> > (and
> > >including Westmarche) fighting is considered a
> > >normal process of human (and Daine) behaviour.
> >
> > As I said in an earlier post, the Trehelish do
> > have a strong sense of
> > maintaining good order.
>
>Different notions on what is an "orderly"
>society!
Every culture has its own idea of "orderly" conduct.  The Trehelish idea of
"orderly" is a lot more rowdy than the Cwendaso idea of "orderly," and
somewhat rougher than my own idea of what would constitute orderly.  On the
other hand, it depends a bit on which aspects of orderliness you are
examining, because the Trehelish have beaurocracy (and I can't remember how
to spell it today and can't find the spell check button on my mail program,
but you know which word I was trying to spell), while the Cwendaso have no
beaurocracy whatsoever.

 > I should hope that
> > you don't have fights breaking out in church.
>
>It's been known to happen.
Oh, dear.

> > Or are you talking about
> > clergy wearing vestements outside of churches
> > because they are leading
> > religious processions through the streets?
>
>There was a big stink one time made over the
>meaning of that phrase. Did it mean fully vested,
>partially vested or just a priest wearing a
>cassock?
Modern Russian Orthodox priests will nearly always be found in a cassock,
even at the grocery store, though my priest is a truck driver and doesn't
wear his to work.  Some priests with secular jobs do wear the cassock to work.

Isidora