Re: lexicon

Hi!

Garrett Jones <conlang@...> writes:
> > At 00:57 29.5.2003 -0700, Garrett Jones wrote:
...
> > Why? Synonyms isn't a Bad Thing.  Especially not for poets!
>
> i'm not a poet and i'm not big on reading poetry either. Real language is
> created first for communication, and secondly for arts, and that's the way
> i'm creating Minyeva. Minyeva kind of has some auxlang qualities, one of
> them being the lack of synonyms/homophones. It's a lablang, vs. being an
> artlang.
Hmm, 'real' language is created for the purpose the creator thinks it
has. :-) My purpose is usually simplicity, fun, abstraction.  Minor
purposes are beaty, which includes subjective things like the mere
sound and peotry, but I never got to a lexicon that allowed for good
peotry.

Just recently, I threw out a word for 'birth' from Tyl Sjok, because I
found that I have two.  I had created both of them with minor,
contextually selected sub-meanings.  One was more 'life, to live, to
be born', one was more restricted to 'birth, to be born'.  I hesitated
for a long time to erase one, because it was the first 'natural'
almost-synonym.  I did erase one, because 'to live' is durative and
not stative and I had formulated a (weak) rule that the lexicon
prefers stative entries.  If this technical reason had not existed, I
would have decided to keep both for poetry freedom.

The kept entry now means 'to be born' (stative).  You can derive
regularly: 'to be born (to experience birth), birth (the event the
child has)' (event), 'to live' (durative), 'to give birth (the
controlled event), birth (the event the mother has as an agent and the
child has as a patient)' from this.

**Henrik