Re: Láadan

Peter Clark wrote:
>On Thursday 28 November 2002 02:14 am, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > Words for the default, unnoticeable level of heat/cold, humidity/dryness
> > etc. are mostly missing, at least from the languages I know of, which is
> > not many I'll admit but still.
> >
> > Words are certainly needed for the temperature perfect to humans, not so
> > hot that you sweat, not so cold that you freeze or need to put on more
> > clothes, that then make you sweat...
>
>         It's not one word, but two will still do: "Room temperature."
>Generally
>understoood here to be approximately 72 F, or 22 C. Note that it cannot (in
>my idiolect, at least) be used to refer to other temperatures:
>         *It's hot in here, the room temperature must be 50 C!"
>         So even though you may be in a very hot or cold room, room
>temperature only
>refers to a comfortable temperature level.

If so, I want word for "the temperature a bit below what Peter Clark thinks
of as room temperature". 19-20 centigrade is about what I generally prefer
indoors when not doing anything physically taxing.


                                                      Andreas

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