Re: A Conlang Pidgin Game
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 13, 2002, 4:49 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Mondello" <joemond@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: A Conlang Pidgin Game
> Well, it was just an example. I was trying to picture a frustrated
merchant
> saying "I have wood! Do you want wood? wood, tree-stuff! you buy my wood,
> no?
I'd imagine a whole lot of trade languages out there formed exactly this
way. By the way, I've actually got a language where the word for "wood" is
"tree-stuff". The whole language has relatively few roots, but is very big
on compounding. If it'd help, I could give you a list of which roots have
been most productive in forming new words. These might be good ones to have
if you want a language with few root words to learn that gradually develops
into something more.
Joe Fatula