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Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2000, 21:33
Steg Belsky wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:44:39 -0000 yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...> writes: > > > How handy it is to be "God" for a conculture and explicitly brand > > that > > > kind of behavior as foreign, traitorous and impolite :) "He > > couldn't get > > > to the point, what a loser!" > > > The Carastans actually have a god of etiquette and a demon of bad > > taste: > > Dharelos and Barenos!! > . > > Talking about conculture and conreligion and conetiquette, the Rokbeigalm > believe that worshipping their deity is rude. They have a word for > "pray", _davihn_, which is a native Rokbeigalmki word (RL it comes from > Yiddish "davnen"), but their word for "worship", _peres_ comes from a > Proto-Elven root meaning "to disturb".
Now that I like. I guess it's fun to make a conculture, eh? I'll have to try that.