Re: Verb order in Montreiano

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> > Interesting.  Do you give yourself a few "sample words" to start with
> > (before doing core vocab) to work with morphology?  I find it easier to
> > "see" what's going on with even morphology *I've* invented when it's
> > applied to an actual word, but that may be a peculiarity of my brain.  :-)
>
> I'm the same way, so either it's normal, or we're related ;) But then I've
> heard tell that Korean and Hungarian may be distantly related...
<interested look>  I don't remember hearing that one, or maybe what with
the various theories floating around, I'm just confused.

> > Vocab is probably my favourite part of conlanging.  <embarrassed look>
>
> As soon as I read that I grimaced...that's the part I dislike most. For
> every one conlang for which I've come out with vocab, there's a dozen
> different ones for which I've only done grammar, and for each one
> Grammar-Only-Lang there's a dozen for which I've only worked out
> phonology...that's my favourite part. Phonology, especially historical...
I like phonology, but I don't know enough about historical phonology to
be entirely comfortable with the sound-changes I devise.  The vocab is
fun for me because I always have a conlang associated with *some* sort of
culture, and it's a way for me to express the culture.  Which means, in
practice, that I have lots of words but not a whole lot of ways to put
them together to say more "complex" thoughts.

YHL

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