Re: OT hypercube (was: Con-other)
| From: | Rebecca Bettencourt <beckiergb@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2008, 15:47 |
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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
> /ObConlang: What are the names of geometric shapes and oddities in your
> conlangs? In Classical Arithide I used _nozais_ "four-sider" (nost "4" +
> daedos "side" + attrition) for square, optionally differentiated from cube
> as "flat-four-sider" vs. "standing-four-sider"; rectangles are called
> _mázais_ "long-siders" (massa "long"). It seems as though I shall need to
> invent a new term for "tesseract". How would you translate that?
Super-standing-four-sider!
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