Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 2, 2002, 2:26 |
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> OBCONLANG/CULTURE: What are some idiomatic ways of describing
> absolutely
> miserable weather and what are some conventional and/or unusual
> concultural
> adaptions/survival tactics in regards to absolutely miserable
climates?
Back when I was living in Texas and my main conlang was Jarda, I had
four different words for "hot", expressing the varying conditions of
summer weather from merely "hot" to "unbearably hot" (roughly speaking:
80, 90, 100, and 110 degrees).
seosj: hot
tlasj: very hot
klisj: uncomfortably hot
zlaga: unbearably hot