Re: favorite aspects of conlanging

Hi!

Tom Tadfor Little <tom@...> writes:
> But this got me to wondering--do the rest of you have "favorite" aspects of
> language design,
...

Yes, definitely.

I love to do grammar, especially syntax.  But I don't like to make up
the morphology very much.  I like to think about how things are
expressed, i.e., what aspects, tenses, cases etc. exist, but I don't
like inventing the real forms (affixes or words), i.e., I like to come
up with feature lists but without real language examples.  That's why
languages I invent start with no words or affixes at all.

After that, I usually like to play with phonology, but usually without
any link to the grammar.  One problem is that I always like to
pronounce my language, which limits the number of phonemes that may
exist. :-(

The other aspects of conlanging are usually the glue to keep the
language together.

In this sense, my current language Tyl Sjok resembles this: it's
isolating.

And lexicon is so hard a task!

**Henrik