Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library

>> >So here's the conlanger challenge:
>> >
>> >What are some of your concultures' "Keywords"?
Well at one point, the two most important words to my conculture were "kar=E4=
"
honor (resembling Greek arete) and skal=E4 "clan."  However, with the wave of
changes that is currently happening now that I'm at college (and can benefi=
t
from the knowledge of various professors), I'm rethinking those ideas.
Particularly, I thinking of de-emphasizing clan and going for a much more
individualistic society; however, I don't have a enough knowledge about
anthropology/sociology to know 1) what possibilities there are and 2) how m=
y
ideas may fit with the findings of these disciplines.

Another 'keyword' would be t=E6hin. This concept is not unique to just my
conculture, but to all concultures within my world (most of which remain
unfleshed out).  Within my world (called Varidien) location is determined
through four dimensions (time therefore becomes the fifth).  People live on
various planes or dimensions.  T=E6hin is Skerre's (my language) description
of these planes.  If you versed in calculus, you can say that Varidien is
modeled by the function w=3Dx^2 + y^2 + z^2 for some set domain (say 0 < x
<10) and the t=E6hinek (pl of t=E6hin) are specific level surfaces of that
function. (I realize if you don't know or remember that part of calculus,
it's a bunch of gibberish, but that is the clearest way I can think to
explain this).  I don't know how sound this is within the laws of physics,
but it is an interesting concept.

-Doug