Re: planets

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

On the Conlang List, Ed Heil wrote:

> When I was a kid and into astronomy more than I am now, it was never
> a widely held theory that the moon was the result of a collision with
> another planet ripping a chunk out of the earth.

That is the standard theory now, except that *both* the Earth and the
Moon are the result of that collision.

> (ObConlang: Does your conlang have a verb which specifically
> describes massive asteroid impacts that rip a chunk off a planet and
> make it into a moon?

Sure: in Lojban, that would be lurborzbaplinyborpopkemcmaplinyjanli.
(c = /S/, j = /Z/, y = /@/, all else IPA; penultimate stress).

That analyzes to "(moon make) (planet break) ((small planet) collide)".

> Why or why not?)

Why? A consequence of Lojban's fully productive compounding rules.

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