Re: idea: environment pronoun

Hanuman Zhang wrote:
>In a message dated 4/15/02 02.02.04 PM, dawier@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> >I'd like to see a "cosmic" (Latin _saeculum_, Greek _kosmos_) use of "it"
> >in a conlang, with the following meanings:
> >
> >It's (the weather) hotter than a stump burning at both ends today.
> >
> >It's (the world, the times) all going to hell in a handbasket.
>
>     I have _yet again_ changed the name of my conlang...  to *ta-da!*
>_callipoeia_ (hint of the Muse Calliope of both the Greeks and Romans;
>calliope the organ-like music instrument... "calli" = beautiful, "poeia"=
>...
>well, you know, _beaucoup_ loads of words & meanings...) After much
>searching, neologisms, & etc., the name callipoeia fits with the total 1/2
>serious, 1/2 whimsical _Gestalt(en)_ of my conlang than all previous names.
Why don't you simply call it "Zhangese" or something? Or, if it have any
influences from English whatsoever, I'd love it to be called "Zhanglish" ...

                                                   Andreas

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