Re: OT Perfect Climate (was Re: Not phonetic but ___???)

From: "Roger Mills" <rfmilly@...>

> Hmm, I suspect you're going to need all your "hot" and "cold" words if you
> head for Kansas.........
>
> From personal experience, I'd have to say Hawaii (no great extremes of
> anything; few if any natural threats [aside from Mauna Loa?/Kea?]).  Lots
of
> people swear by San Diego CA, but they have those wildfires. For a while I
> enjoyed the best of both worlds-- summer months in Michigan, winter months
> in Florida, thus avoiding both extreme snowfall and excessive
heat/humidity
> and hurricanes.  Unfortunately, it entailed a BORING drive twice yearly,
and
> ultimately proved to be a budget-buster.
>
> Everyplace in the US that might be "perfect" has a defect of one sort or
> another.
Best summer weather I ever experienced was in Seattle in 1998. My wife
really wants to move back there; she went to U. of Washington. We're
considering becoming Canadians in fact (immigration there is not as easy as
it is in the US, from what I understand), and Vancouver is on the short list
of places to live. Whatever the case, I'd like to be somewhere else besides
Texas in July or August; one day last year it was 110°F (43°C) in Austin. My
wife has MS, and that kind of heat really aggravates its symptoms, so she
doesn't need to be here either.

Conlang-related. Tech will have plenty of words for various type of heat or
cold: warm vs. hot, dry-hot vs. humid-hot, cool/brisk vs. cold/freezing,
etc. I've decided to revive the 'Big Six' IAL project and give it as a
lingua franca for Humans and Ogres alike, and since I really don't want a
huge vocabulary for that, I'm probably going to say 'hot' and 'very hot'
instead of 'warm' and 'hot'; likewise 'cold'/'very cold' instead of
'cool'/'cold'. Or an optional Esperantism meaning 'unhot' for 'cold', and
vice versa, but I have so many issues with Esperanto (ESPECIALLY that damn
mal- prefix) that would better be hashed out in AUXLANG.

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