Re: Conlang Dream

Rob Haden wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:33:34 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier
> <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
>>P.S. A few days ago I had a daydream about a visit in a Zireen city.
>>It looked just like a modern western city (Herman Miller certainly
>>has different ideas) except that everything was about half normal
>>size, and some buildings, signs, etc. had odd colours.  There were
>>posters, paintings, etc. where some of the colours were off by
>>adding or subtracting red (which is invisible to Zireen).
Hmm, I don't imagine Zireen living in anything much like a modern
western city, but it sounds like an interesting daydream. Now I'll have
to find out what a Zireen city looks like. Although they're high-tech,
they still have a strong sense of artistic balance and love of nature,
so there would be lots of open areas and trees everywhere among the
buildings. Possibly arranged on something like a hexagonal grid or maybe
something less regular.

> Who (or what) are the Zireen?
>
> - Rob
Zireen are small people who live in another world; many of my recent
language sketches, such as Yasaro, are languages spoken by Zireen. They
have large round eyes, hands with four fingers (including the thumb),
and a light coat of fur; average height for adults is 2 1/2 feet (75
cm). The word "Zireen" and the name of their world, "Rishai", are from
an early Zireen language which I'm now calling Simîk; the "r" in both of
these words is [z`] (a very frequent sound in Zireen languages). You
might come across "Zirien" in older list archives, but I preferred the
older anglicized version, so I changed the spelling back to "Zireen".