Re: quo meridies ivit?

Ah, bienvenue à conlang!  Et pourquois le non "Murdock", si je peux
penser?

(s'il vous plait, ne laissez moi parler français, ou c'erais une grande
catastrophe ;)

Danny Wier
Lufkin, Texas USA
http://www.geocities.com/DaWier

--- Sylvain 'Murdock' Glaize <mokona@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this must be my first message here, because I've failed on my
> other attempts :) (one mail was directed to the sender, and the other
> on
> egroups, where I found this was noot the right location on the list).
>
> > As far as French is concerned, they're alive and well and living as
> > adjectives:
> > French: méridional, oriental, septentrional, occidental  (as in:
> vent
> > septentrional -- north wind)
> occidental and oriental are also names to speak of people.
>
> > There are also the nouns, l'Orient and l'Occident. I think North
> and South
> > get the short end of the stick; maybe they exist in some poetic
> contexts,
> > but I've never seen them.
> Septentrion is seldom used. In some old texts or poetic contexts yes.
> Meridionnal as a name is used to speak of people from the south of
> France
> and is frequently used. I can't think of it as meaning "South"
> speaking
> of a place.
>
> Bye
>
> --
> Sylvain Glaize - mokona@puupuu.org

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