Re: equinox

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Matt Pearson wrote:
> > However, the
> > Tokana terms are based on the weather rather than the proportion of daylight
> > to darkness, and thus do not have fixed time lengths, but can vary in
> > duration from year to year.
>
> Or place to place!  There would be places without some of those seasons,
> and places with seasons that don't fit into those catagories.  (For
> example, what about places where most of the rain is in the winter?)
I don't know.  Tokana has a very small speaker base:  Only about 35,000
speakers, living within an area of less than 200 square miles.  So not
a lot of climatic variation.  If I were to adapt Tokana for use in our
world, I would have to invent a whole different set of conventions, I
suppose...

Matt.