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Re: They _don't_ have a word for it!

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 29, 2001, 18:06
David Peterson wrote:
> >Many of my non-urbanized languages lack a word for "tree", since all such >languages also lack a word for (or a cognitive model for) the concept we >all refer to as "tree".
My SF conlangs lack a word for "planet". They've got one word for stony, earth-like planets, a special one for inhabited such planets, one word for gas giant planets (a la Jupiter) and a variety of words for smaller stuff (what we'd call asteroids, planetoids, comets etc). They don't distinguish between moons and planets the way English does. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp