Re: lexicon

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > So-- David, Yoon Ha and me.  That makes 3 who admit to enjoying
> > word-creation.  After all, what's a language without words? :-)
>
> Me too.  I tried using langmaker, and although it's a fun program to play
> with, it felt kind of unsatisfying.  There's almost a mystical sort of
> experience when a word just rises to the surface of the consciousness,
> like static from the depths of space.
I tried to get Langmaker to run--I figured I'd probably *majorly* screw
with anything it came up with, but it might be inspirational--but it
never actually worked properly on the computer I was using.

> What's strange is, allowing words to arise in this way doesn't mean I end
> up with a mishmash of phonology.  On the other hand, words obey
> phonological rules very closely, although sometimes I discover later that
> those rules aren't what I thought they were.
Same here.  :-)

YHL

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