Re: OT: Canada is severely insulted by US official.

>I've been putting it off, but I'm absolutely certain that my languages are
>going to be full of political terms that are, quite frankly, obscure or
>little-used by the general population.  My elves are going to be able to
>debate capital gains policies (I'm a poli sci major, ONE CLASS away from
>graduating -- I hope)  Anyway, does anyone else have a problem with having
>way too much vocabulary for their pet topic(s)? [my other pet topics are
>fiction writing and history; thankfully history is full of proper names
^_^]

One thing I ought to have MORE of in the Rhean language is political terms.
Being in the midst of something like a cold war, Rhea can get quite
political. Being an empire in its dying days, forced to grant independence
to more and more of its former colonies adds to the politics of that world.
The problem is that since Rhea's earth shares no history with ours (except
of course biological "history"), none of our known ideologies and
affiliations exist in quite the same way there. I suppose I'd need a set of
words for the politics of this world, and a set for the similar but not
identical politics of that world.

M