Re: equinox

At 15:46 -0700 on 23.9.1998, Matt Pearson wrote:


> To all of you in the Northern Hemisphere, a very happy autumn!  And to all
> of you in the Southern Hemisphere, a very happy spring!
Thanks.  Up here in what would be the Arctic if it werent for the Gulf
stream fall is already well under way (as Matt would know since he's been
to Sweden...)  My father used to say that the western coast of Sweden has
four seasons like all other places: spring, early fall, fall and late fall.
He probably knew that he was doubly wrong, since he'd been in the tropics
and subtropics at intervals for three decades.

> 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 just realized that the Finos (at least the late ones) should have a
seasonal terminology different from and more elaborate than the usual
Indo-European one.  As if my project of revamping (i.e. de-humanize) Funus
semantics and logic wasn't enough as it is...  I also realized that perhaps
Sky-Earth shouldn't be so much like Earth as it is -- OTOH it's a Fantasy
place and not an SF place, so I guess it's in order.

/BP


B.Philip. Jonsson <bpj@...>

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