Re: conlangs' worlds (was: Back!)

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:28:08 +0200, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout
<ira@...> wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, A Rosta wrote:
>
>> the world of Valdya.
>
>Which does not exist. There is a kingdom called Valdyas, and the
>world that it's in is just called _arli_ "the realities" in the
>language of that country; no *name* for the world, because names for
>worlds usually don't come about until someone looks at it from the
>*outside*.
Indeed, "Kolagia" is actually not a word used by Kolagians. It comes from=
 a
Deverrin word meaning "universal", referring to the "universal library" =
on
the planet Zel. The extension of this word to refer to the "Kolagian
sector" and "Kolagian languages" is a later development, which I only use
in English.