Re: consport/congaming
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 17, 2004, 15:45 |
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Hallo!
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:58:39 -0400,
"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Is there a separate list for conculturing vs. conlanging? I was
> wondering if anyone had created new sports that are played in their
> conculture. Would seem to be a good source of specialized vocabulary
> needing no gloss. Or tabletop games (card/board), for that matter . .
> .
There is the Conculture mailing list (conculture@yahoogrouos.com)
of course, but it has been virtually hi-jacked by the Ill Bethisad
folks. I'd say an occasional conculture post here isn't objectionable
- more than half of the list traffic on CONLANG has even less to do
with *conlangs* than that.
Regarding con-sports, I have only a few *very* sketchy ideas about
Elvish (Old Albic) sports. They ran, swam, rode horses, played a
ball game similar to field hockey, and had a martial arts tradition
somewhat resembling east Asian martial arts. And while the ancient
Greeks performed their exercises naked (the words "gymnasium" and
"gymnastics" contain the word _gymnos_ `naked'), the Elves performed
theirs (even swimming) fully clothed.
I don't know of parlour games yet, but I have to invent a board game
or two for them some day.
Greetings,
Jörg.
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