Re: CHAT: Directions (was: Re: CHAT: living conditions/conditionally)

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dennis Paul Himes wrote:

>     I would expect "sun" to mean "south", because in the Northern Hemisphere
> the sun is highest in the sky when it's due south.
Let me repeat what I wrote about a month ago:

> The Valdyan words are verin "east", hanre "south", telhin "west",
> havin "north"; they also mean "morning, day, evening, night". From
> this it can be inferred that Valdyas is in the northern hemisphere.
That is, the names for the times of day mean "time when the sun is in
the X" (except for the north; people know that the world is round
like an apple and the sun goes around it, but they have to call it
*something*).

I haven't looked into languages of people living in the southern
hemisphere - in fact I don't know about any people living farther
south than the equator. I'm sure there must be some; I just haven't
met them yet.

   Irina

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