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

David Peterson wrote:
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>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.


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