Re: consport/congaming

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:


> "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.
I would tend to present anything to do with Kash or Gwr culture here,
especially if it included vocabulary.
>
> 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.
Similarly for my people :-)---- except riding; there are no decent beasts of
burden on Cindu.  It might be daring or amusing to try to leap aboard one of
the larger "lizards" but the ride I fear wouldn't last long and might entail
danger to life and limb.

The Kash are too big/heavy/furry to be fast swimmers, though they enjoy it
and in their way compete. Their record times would probably be laughable
from our POV.  OTOH the Gwr, who live in the frigid north, have an abiding
dislike of the water, and do not swim, even though, being small
light-weight, they'd probably be good at it.

Both people run, lift weights, wrestle, do various martial arts, have games
involving throwing/kicking a ball, and batting a ball, but except for the
occasional exhibition game of the last, do not compete directly; in most
cases there simply couldn't be a fair match-up because of the size/weight
difference.

No doubt the Kash would favor something like American football, while the
Gwr would be more inclined to soccer.

Yet there are "Games" every 5 years, where everyone shows off, and
individual/species records are set. About the only events with direct
competition are marksmanship and archery.

There is probably a board game like chess, called "100 squares" (Old Gwr
Base-8 "100"); and no doubt card games requiring either skill (bridge) or
skill+luck (Celebrity Poker, anyone?), in which there could be inter-species
matches.

 And while the ancient
> Greeks performed their exercises naked (the words "gymnasium" and
> "gymnastics" contain the word _gymnos_ `naked'),
..as do the Kash; their naughty bits are not ordinarily visible, and they
find tight-fitting clothing uncomfortable.

the Elves performed
> theirs (even swimming) fully clothed.
Similarly the Gwr; their naughty bits _are_ visible, but aside from that,
they just have hang-ups about nudity....
>