Re: favorite aspects of conlanging

Tom Tadfor Little wrote:

> But this got me to wondering--do the rest of you have "favorite" aspects of
> language design, areas where you seem to get all sorts of ideas without
> even trying, and "drudgery" aspects--things that you do to make the
> language presentable, but that you don't actually derive much pleasure
> from? And for those of you who've been at this for years--do those category
> boundaries shift with time?
I've found that I really like designing phonologies and the Latin
orthographies to fit them. I like interesting morphologies, too.
Glïzxföösee is a morphologist's wet dream (consonant roots,
incorporation, agglutination, inflection, circumfixion, etc., etc.).
Lexical creation has always been a struggle for me, as I don't really
have a natural feel for roots and lexical transformations. Some parts of
my vocabularies end up sounding stiff and unnatural. I've recently
discovered a passion for historical linguistics (I picked up Trask's
'Historical Linguistics' textbook not too long ago, and I'm working my
way through it), but haven't had time to derive any daughter languages
from Mungayöd yet. I probably won't have time for any intensive
conlanging activity until August or so when summer session is over.

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Daniel Seriff
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