Re: CHAT: Three questions from a lurker

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Beorn - wulf wrote:

> Hi all list people.  I am generally a lurker, but I have to ask: am I the
> youngest conlanger on this list?  I'm 16 and have made five languages.
Having read the various responses to your message, I believe that I might
just possibly be the youngest subscriber--I am 15, birthday in April.  I
joined the list when I was 14.  However, whether I qualify as a genuine
conlanger is questionable....my one language consists of about 3-4 pages
of .txt file that I never ever work on, alas....

> Right now I'm working on one based on Welsh.  Oh, and I have another two
> questions, because somehow I didn't get the responses the first time.
> How do you decide on your vocabularies/morphemes?
Right now, I just pick them at random--but then, I've only got around 10
words and maybe another 10 morphemes...mostly I've been concentrating on
the syntax.

> And what computer
> program do you use.  I use Excel myself because of the ease of
> alphabetizing.
I use that fine example of text-processing excellence, EDIT.EXE.  In the
past, I've experimented with a certain program by a member of this list (I
can remember neither the author's nor the program's name, unfortunately)
for vocabulary generation, but none of those words ever made it into the
actual language.

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