Re: conlang servey

 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > En réponse à
bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:
>
> > 2.
> > we've been having a bit of wind here today ( the
> sun
> > newspaper described it in typical tabloid
> hyperbole as
> > a 'horror hurricane' . . . a few felled branches
> and
> > the odd dislodged slate )
>
> Here the storm was a bit stronger than that :)) .
> Windforce 11, the Netherlands
> didn't have that for 12 years! Hundreds of tree have
> fallen, the train traffic
> has been stopped all night for reparations, and
> still didn't work well this
> morning (I was supposed to go to a conference, but
> there was no train to the
> town I had to be :((( ), and quite a few buildings
> have suffered. The roof of
> the Province House of Zuid Holland fell, and the
> police had to put a car on it
> to prevent it to fly down the road! (and even then,
> it was just, the car was
> nearly taken away by the roof!) And unfortunately a
> few people died...
we apparently had force 8, tho whether this is the
same scale i don't know. highest recorded wind speed
was 96.6 kmh-1 in mumbles in wales

fortunately our downstairs neighbour had her pear tree
pruned on saturday, so we were spared any damage there
. . . !

bn

oh yes, weather words :

|sos| wind ( from |sas| moving air )
|pes| rain ( from |pas| moving water )
|ler| puddle ( from |lar| sitting water )
|was| branch ( cognate with |wes| forearm and |wos|
calf (lower leg) )
|kowak| duck (!)

=====
bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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