Re: lexicon
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 16:33 |
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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.
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.
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