Re: Elephants and hamsters

Mia Soderquist wrote:
>
>I'd guess not too many conlangers share their homes with sugar
>gliders. I have 4 that I will go on and on about if I am allowed
>the opportunity. (And I have MANY gerbils, 2 rats, and 2 dogs
>too... Keeshonden, for the curious. I *used* to have mice, guinea
>pigs, and a very spoiled, very loved Yorkshire terrier.)
Ah yes! Pets are great. When I was a kid and had parents that could
afford my lust for pets, I had: 4 dogs, dozens of pidgeons, a grass
owl, a talking maina (sp?), 2 parrots, 2 mice, 2 guinea pigs, 2
hamsters, a rabbit, a tortoise, 4 turtles, a long-tailed macaque
monkey, and several gold fishes. Pets are easy to obtain back in the
Philippines, and I thought I had seen all the possible kinds of pets
in the infamous Manila pet market of Cartimar, BUT... what in the
world is a suger glider?!
>
>I'm just crazy about little critters, and animal names tend to be
>important vocabulary in most of my languages. Ea-luna was developed
>around a particular word list, so I have constantly been filling in
>gaps as I go along. I haven't done much with this language in the
>last couple of years, and looking at it now, I have plenty of work
>to be done.
I also love little critters, but unfortunately my choice of using
all of them as part of a Boreanesian vocabulary is limited by
geography. On the other hand, I get to invent other creatures. The
endemic mammalian wildlife of Boreanesia is dominated by monotremes
(egg-laying mammals). Like Australia where marsupials have occupied
the different ecological niches, so have the monotrematas of
Boreanesia.

-kristian- 8-)