Re: CHAT: Three questions from a lurker

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.
> 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?  And what computer
> program do you use.  I use Excel myself because of the ease of
> alphabetizing.
> Well, I'll go back to lurking.  Thanks a lot.
> David
>
I am definitely older than you. I'll be 28 in January. :)

I have used heavily modified versions of pre-prepared vocabulary lists,
some of which are available on the web, to which I assign the new words,
which I have (a) made up as I go along -- very time consuming, but best
for achieving a particular effect (b) randomly generated (which didn't
work as well as I had hoped) or (c) built systematically from a set
pre-determined possible syllables (time saver that lets you dump icky
sounding words along the way).

I use MS Access. I never used the computer for conlanging before,
really, but I am very happy with what I have done with Access.
I find it difficult to read for any length of time from the computer, so
I still prefer to do most of the work by hand on paper. This, of course,
makes more work for me, since I have to transcribe my notes to computer
to share with all you good people. (So far, better hardware hasn't
helped my problem with focusing on text on a screen. Changing the text
to yellow-on-black seems to help some, but printing everything I want to
read carefully has been my ideal solution.)

Mia