Re: survey: time and space

Quoting Garrett Jones <conlang@...>:


> - in english, for greater and lesser amounts of time, we use 'long'
> and
> 'short'. these are the same terms that are used for length. do any
> languages
> use physical dimensions for time besides length? such as height, "for a
> tall
> time vs for a short time", or width, "for a wide time vs for a narrow
> time".
> Or, does anyone use unique words pertaining only to the time
> dimension?
> (this is what i intend to do in my language Minyeva).
For some reason, time gaps can be narrow in (at least some varieties of)
English; "There's a narrow gap 'tween the lecture and the party into which we
could squeeze our homework". Could be related to the physical location of the
entries for the lecture and party in an agenda.

                                                            Andreas