Re: metaphors?

In a message dated 12.11.2001 11:05:12 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:

>ObConlang: What are particularly colorful or vivid metaphors in your
>conlangs, if they exist?
    Lego's name itself is a metaphor of sorts*:

    LEGO /le:'go/- 1> construction toy of interlocking plastic building blocks
        (from Danish _leg godt_ "play well", from _lege_ "to play")
        2> _lego_ Greek for "gather," "choose," "select," "read," "say,"
"speak"

    * also an "up-date-ation" of _Dada_ (from French for "hobbyhorse")...
Dada being the early 20th C. anti-Art movement...

    _daida_ <Greek, "Daidalos", Latin, "Daedalus"> is "total art"/"skilled
creativity" and is relatable to _lila_ <Sanskrit, divine creative play>,
_ludo_ <Greek, "play"> & _edo_<pleasure> [from "hedo"]... _eido_<Greek,
"thought/idea shape/form>

    _ji_ /zhi/ <energy> [mutated from Chinese _chi_/Japanese _gi_]
    _je_ /zhe/ <earth, soil> [mutated from Greco _ge_]
    _jeo_ /zhe'o/ <(the) world> [mutated from Greco _geo_]
    _Gaia_ /ga'i'a/ <Earth, nature/natural> [somewhat directly "appropriated"
from            Greek myth]
        _maya_ /ma:ja/ <Sanskrit, illusion, magic, supernatural, artificial,
man-made;
                the power by which the universe becomes manifest, the
illusion or                         appearance of the phenomenal world>
{relatable to _mammon_ ,                        _nummo_, _ducca_<dhukka,
"suffering">, _caca_, etc.}
    _galaxi_ /ga'la'iksi/ <galactic/(the) universe(s)> [GrecoLatin-mutation]
    _Cozmoz_ /koz'moz/ <Cosmos/cosmic> [ " ]

    I hope I got the SAMPA (or whatever right)... big hint: vowels are like
those in the highly phonemic Spanish 5-vowel system.

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