Re: equinox

Herman Miller wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:46:22 -0700, Matt Pearson <mpearson@...>
wrote:
>
>>How are the seasons named and delimited in other people's conlangs?
>>How about weather terms?  Do people whose conlangs are spoken on other
>>planets have any 'exotic' terminology for weather or seasonal changes?
>
>I probably ought to, but I haven't thought much about alien seasons.
>
> [...] I can't even
>imagine what the weather would be like on a planet orbiting Procyon, or
>even if a stable orbit is possible with Procyon B nearby.
Procyon is a double system?
I once began to think, just as an exercise, about how the seasons would go
on in a planet with two or more suns. The idea is fascinating in the field
of language too -- how would call the Sun(s)? In one of my SF stories, a
planet with two suns was inhabited by a race who named them with a
compound, something between a colective plural and a non-singular form
(like 'the dead, the rich' in English). They imagined they were a mother
and her daughter (so the word was feminine), and that the daughter
constantly played around her mother in circles.

Anyway, there may not be seasons. If the Earth's axis were not tilted by 23
degrees, the eccentricity of the orbit wouldn't be enough to produce a
noticeable change in global temperatures. (This would be boring, of course;
I wouldn't have a conculture like that).

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