Re: favorite aspects of conlanging

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, 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?
>
At first, I preferred designing scripts. I've never really liked
doing long lists of words, though a sense of duty once made me create
a thousand words in a month. I'm not particularly fond of phonology
either. I rather like morphology, and a simple syntax pleases me a
lot. But what I really like is creating example sentences that evoke
both a sense of otherness in the language, and in the culture.  That,
and I like writing grammars, preferably full of fake references.


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