Re: New member greets list :-)
From: | Ivan Baines <kinetic_wab@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 1:50 |
> > I'd say jump right in with both feet. :-)
>
> That is, unless your conlang's hypothetical speakers don't have feet...
>
> In a language spoken by a race of people without lower limbs,
> would one word mean both "arm" and "leg"?
Among a race of people with only one set of limbs, there wouldn't be
the need for the distinction between "arm" and "leg". You'd just have
one word which I suppose one would translate into English as "limb".
My conlang doesn't have "hypothetical speakers", though: I've never
really been into the conculture side of things. The furthest I've gone
in that direction has been thinking of "native names" that fit my lang's
phonology pattern. Maybe I will do in due course...?
K.