Ive wanted to make an artlang with a noun case system where the two cases give a word some vauge but evocative connotations. The inspiration stems from how one can say "a cottage in the forest" or "a cabin in the woods" and get different imagery, as the classoc (to me) example. I wanna make an artlang where you would use the same words but different cases to get that same vibe outta words. Btw i know cabin/cottage and forest/woods have actual differences between them and are not a pair of synonyms, I am reffering to the connotations these similar phrases have.
Anyways my current idea is having a hot-cold gender, along with a nueter gender that also acts as the dictionary definition, where hot denotes... high temperatures... warm colors (closer to magenta)... and some more abstract stuff like being together, communal, or paired up, along with things like being extroverted and lively. Inversely cold is low temperatures, cool colors (closer to cyan), being solitary, indivualistic/unique, being introverted and death.
Something being hot or cold is not a negative or positive thing. Except for maybe like. Death. Its suppose to be a shared bank of themes the user can draw from to get abstract about the qualities of something or how they feel about it. Like id imagine a person describing a home as hot cuz its where people live, but refer to their childhood home as cold cuz they have a rough relationshil with their parents, or dont like their childhood room, or it was a rural home in an isolated location.
I like the vauge uses these cases could have but i haaate cold and hot. They feel so dumb. I wouldnt mind dropping that theme for something MUCH more abstract. I debated doing solar and lunar but, it felt like i was assigning traits to the sun and moon rather than using a descriptive set of words.
Dgmw im assigning traits to something being hot and something being cold that dont need to be there (like cold = indivualism snd hot = communalism isnt horrible, but its still like, the act of being cold? Yeah that reminds me of Being A Singular Thing) but its at least not as loaded as The Sun is a Thing of Life cuz the moon also has that trait, just not for humans, and going "the moon (solar case)" to talk about how the moon being the moon is good for the tides irks me on a deeper level then saying like, "arctic water (hot) is teeming with life und the surface".
Also the moons not alone it follows the earth, and making a solar be the one about being alone is dumb to me too cuz places that are hot have more people like a campsite or the equator.
Anyways, if you have a suggestion thats more abstract then hot and cold that can still have some flexibility (assigning traits not directly related to that theme back to it in a way that doesnt feel like "someone has to have it") please tell me okay bye.