Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings
| From: | Mia Soderquist <happycritter@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 26, 2007, 21:17 |
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On 7/24/07, Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
> Funny that - I noticed Capricornus a couple of nights back (well, alpha and
> beta Cap, anyway - that's all you get from my observatory!). On that
> subject, do any of your concultures have names for constellations that are
> different from traditional ones?
> Mike
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Apparently my conpeople never look up. I don't even have words for
constellations that are the same as the traditional ones. I am not
even entirely sure any of my languages has had a word for
"constellation" (although it is probably safe to say that it would
have been a compound word in ea-luna. "star picture" or some such.)
This is one of the things I love about this hobby. It is as much or as
little as you want to make of it; it can be a little linguistic
sketching, or it can turn into a full-on multidisciplinary
extravaganza. This is another thing that astounds me-- how much many
of you know about so many different things.
Hmmmm... I may have to go look at stars. I don't know what the stars
in the Ianea sky would look like, but I can imagine what transplants
to our world would see in our sky.
Mia.