Re: Vocab #7

Aidan Grey wrote:
>    On a side note, I wonder if these have been useful to people? I mean,
>do people have requests for topics? Have I been too obtuse in my selections
>of subject matter? Or are they great / fantastic / more amazingly amazing
>than the most amazing thing one could ponder? Just want to check in and see
>how people are feeling about the exercise.
Personally I've found them useful, entertaining, challenging (sewing
instructions!!), only occasionally obtuse (vicious bunnies!!).  For my
not-very-filled-out conworld, even these require require a good deal of
thought.  Could there be, lurking somewhere in legendary lore, a "leaping
lizard" (Kash _tecuki_) that for some reason would go after a human with a
knife......?
Now the present series takes me, circuitously, into the Kash educational
system, which by free association will result in Lord knows how many new
words and questions.  E.g., given a year of 464 days, how long is the school
year? And a fundamental question that is yet to be resolved:  do Kash people
develop in line with _their_ year (so that a 10-year-old Kash is equivalent
to a Terran 10 y.o.-- even though the Kash has roughly the equivalent of 13
earth-years under his belt)-- or on some other schedule-- so that that
10y.o. Kash is physically/mentally more like a Terran 13 y.o.????? (I've
been tacitly assuming the latter).
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>   Also, I may not do the exercises this summer (travelling), but will
>definitely resume once late August hits. Is this okay, or will people go
>into withdrawal? ;^D
Quite likely. And beware, you may be replaced.....:-)))