Re: conculture

*abashed*  I've never cobbled a single one in ANY of my langs.  Lrahran
should have an enormous vocab of them and doesn't have a single one.
Where'd I put that blasted thinking cap?

Adam

So lift the cup of joy and take a big drink.
In spite of it all it's a beautiful world.
-------Suzanne Knutzen




>From: Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: conculture
>Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:03:20 -0500
>
>From: "Elliott Lash" <AL260@...>
> > aniye Adam Walker:
> > > My concultures and conlangs usually develop symbiotically.  A new word
> > > suggests a cultural attitude.  A new bit of culture built suggests a
>fertile
> > > sematic domain.  That in turn further defines th culture inspiring
>other
> > > vocab.  Which comes first?  Why the chickeggen of course!
> > >
> >
> > Speaking of such things, I recently looked into the cultural domain of
>music
>in
> > Silinestic culture, and the result was the creation of a larger
>vocabulary
> > describing various musical things:
> >
> > Currently there are 4 main instruments:
> >
> > tiuma 'lyre' (sort of like a lyre at least)
> > gaske '4 string harp'
> > limma/yalma 'harp'
> > piore 'pipe' (more flute like really)
> > lineo 'instrument'
>[...]
>
>This reminds me of ... ah yes, I was thinking about really specialized
>vocabulary tonight at work.
>
>English has a word for "paisley".  Admittedly, it's a transferred place
>name,
>but the fact that "oily swirled paramecia pattern" gets a word and not,
>say,
>"fuzzy blue monkey pattern", ought to say something cultural about us.
>
>What kinds of patterns are common/popular enough to have their own names in
>yall's conlangs?
>
>(I can't think of any offhand in any of mine...)
>
>     *Muke!

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