Re: Lahabic Syntax

In a message dated 10/2/00 9:05:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, fortytwo@GDN.NET
writes:

> Estelachan@AOL.COM wrote:
>  > Yet, I have the English words "planet" and (some senses of) "world"
>  > broken into six or so words involving who could and/or does live there.
>
>  Fascinating!  You mind sharing with us the words?
I never made the actual *words*, but I can give you the divisions...note that
any planet where nothing bigger than bacteria and slime mold (etc.) lives
goes in the first category, the inhabitable has to do with sentients. Also,
there are TWO words for "people"-- one for humans, one for ALL sentients.
Terraformation is unknown (quick background: this language was created for a
roleplaying character who is [basically, long story] from the Star Wars
universe. it's my own invented planet, but there's a few words that refer to
the setting fairly specifically in the language, such as the last word for
"planet"). These apply to moons, too. If you need a breath mask or
environment suit to survive there, or there's nothing to stand on, and it's
not already inhabited, it's considered uninhabitable for your species. Hmm,
there's more than I thought, I keep seeming to need them... funny how that
happens.
1. uninhabitable (humans and everything else)
2. uninhabitable to humans, but not to alien species (i.e. methane breathers,
fish-aliens, and so on)
3. inhabitable by humans, but not inhabitated by them.
4. inhabited by humans (and possibly other sentients too).
5. inhabited by humans even though it really shouldn't be inhabitable (ex.
the gas planet Bespin, where they had to build a floating city)
6. inhabited by sentients, but uninhabited, even if possible, by humans. A
dozen humans on a world full of aliens does NOT count as inhabited by humans.
7. planets and natural satellites (moons but not asteroid belts) in general
8. planets but NOT moons, in general (mostly for astronomy purposes).
9. destroyed worlds.... this is a recent word, created as a political
protest. Finvarans say this word should not exist-- not because it's
linguistically wrong but because there should never have been any need for it.
>
>  Lúnago, my very-sketchy con-creole uses several words (I'm not sure
>  exactly of the forms):
>  Planet - Uninhabited
>  ? - Life-bearing planet
>  ? - No life, but terraformable
>  ? - Has intelligent life, but no nature [people living in domes]
>  World - Inhabited, with nature
>
>  In my personal usage, world is inhabited, planet is not.  Sun has a
>  world, star does not; moon orbits a world, satellite orbits a planet.
what if you could make a moon livable, or it already was? (ex. a great big
moon like earth's, or stuff like Endor and Yavin 4 in Star Wars).... what
word would you use for it? planets full of sentient aliens? or does this Just
Not Happen in your conuniverse?

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