Re: Interesting Words

> (that was a stupid subject line I know)
 i always have trouble coming up with subject lines ;) don't
feel bad...
> Anyway, I'm wondering about that age old 'language myth'
> about the many words for snow in Eskimo. Now of course I
> know this is untrue, but, does anyone have a language with
> a similar group of words with related meanings?  Let me
> try to demonstrate using Silindion.
>
 well, ferengi, according to quark in the star trek: deep
space nine episode "let he who is without sin", has 178
words for rain but i don't know if anyone actually took the
time to create them or of any real languages with that sort
of repetition... my conlang has pairs of words that would be
the same word in english (i.e. good as in the opposite of
evil and good as in the opposite of bad are two different
words and the words for what and when are different
depending on whether or not you're asking a question)...
..nicole