Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 11, 1999, 2:24 |
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:53:40 -0600, Ed Heil <edheil@...> wrote:
>So here's the conlanger challenge:
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>What are some of your concultures' "Keywords"?
Well, for the Mizarian rat-people, "triek" (translated as "ritual") is a
word that pervades their culture so extensively that an exact translation
may be misleading. Where we might say "let's have lunch", Mizarians would
say something more like "would you like to join me in an eating ritual?".
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