equinox Q Equinox means "equal night." It is essentially a negative, depressing term. It should be changed to equimane, meaning "equal morning." 050603 ... skyburst777 i don't find it negative and depressing. i love the word equinox. equinox. equinox. 050603 ... birdmad to malign the night is to have never lived in the desert 050603 ... Q While the proposition is surely false, it is true that I've lived in the desert and haven't ever maligned the night. Here I haven't maligned anything. Symbolically a glass becoming brighter is a glass half full and a glass becoming darker is a glass half empty. At what are now called the equinoxes, I believe the world would be better off noting the glass as half full rather than half empty. So I'd like the word equimanes to replace equinox. That's all. 050603 what's it to you? who go blather from