Re: Kinya (& Miapimoquitch) (was: RE: [CONLANG] Silindion)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 29, 2002, 2:44 |
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:00:17 EST, J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:
> OBCONLANG/CULTURE: What are some words for "trash," "refuse,"
>"discard(s)," "ephemera," "bric-a-brac," etc. in your ConLangs? Do any of
>your ConLangs/Cultures have a word for trash turned into something more?
Tirelat has two different concepts: ["fOr_0] is the ordinary kind of
garbage that occurs naturally as an incidental by-product of ordinary
activities (packaging materials and wrappers that are discarded, used tea
bags, and similar things); ["SUx] is deliberate garbage, annoying unwanted
items with no redeeming value that are deliberately created by someone
(junk mail, spam, pop-up windows on web sites, Flash ads).
From [z@"bOta] "to get rid of, dispose of", the word [z@"bOtav\It] "a piece
of junk" is derived.
The infamous "chad" from punch-card ballots is ["fj8r_08k].
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