Re: Conlang names?

MorphemeAddict wrote:
> You have a good point.  It's the naming issue again.  I tried to avoid that
> problem by simply numbering the worlds, but then the planets were redefined.
> Who could expect that, eh?
:) Latejami is maybe the main influence for Raikudu too, but the mnemonic
derivation is one of the things I don't steal.

Some thoughts about it:

1) Since the names are "planet no. 1, planet no. 2" etc, why not just have
common nouns modified by numeric adjectives? It seems more flexible to me.

2) You could name planets with other mnemonic morphemes, as "big planet" for
Jupiter, and "old small planet" for Pluto, and "home planet" for Earth. Well,
I don't know about you inventory of modifiers, and maybe you already have
abandoned this idea for some reason.

3) You could have your own criteria about what's a planet and what's not.
After all, who to decide the semantic space of your equivalent to "planet",
other than you, the creator of Saweli? Why borrow the semantic space from the
word "planet" in Western science?

> But there are no "people".  There is no conculture to go with this language.
> It is strictly for the real world.
But then it will be *real* people that complain :)

> stevo   </HTML>
- Veoler