Re: Heat 'n' cold
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 30, 1999, 4:48 |
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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:56:39 -0300, FFlores <fflores@...> wrote:
>Oh help! It's been around 38 degrees C all day until a
>while back (and it's 10 PM!). The river is drying, and so
>am I. But I won't just complain about it. What words do you
>have in your conlangs related to weather? Any really weird
>ones? Do you have special words for terrible heat (or cold)?
Well, Jarrda does have distinct words for four different intensities of
heat:
seosh hot
tlash very hot
klish uncomfortably hot
zlaga unbearably hot
There aren't corresponding words for cold extremes (how often would I need
them in Texas?), just one word "plu" which means "less hot".
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