My favourite bits of conlanging are creating inflections, roman orthography
and vocabulary. My ultimate favourite part is deriving daughter languages-
this is why I have so many.
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La plus belle fois qu'on m'a dit
"je t'aime"
c'était un mec
qui me l'a dit...
Francis Lalane
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----- Original Message -----
From: Amber Adams <amber@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: favorite aspects of conlanging
> I've found my one of my favorite parts is coming up with the phonology.
> I like throwing together lots of different sounds, and seeing how they
sound.
> Pretty? Ugly? Maybe it's all subjective.
>
> On a related note, that makes me wonder, what languages do you all
consider
> "pretty"? Or, maybe not pretty, but just like the sound of? The kind
that
> makes you go to realaudio sites and listen to the news broadcasts, not for
> content, but just to listen to the sounds of the language...
> Or maybe I'm the only one who does that. ;)
>
> I also like designing scripts. As I lack a font editing program, and
don't
> have the computer drawing skills to use it effectively anyway, my efforts
> are limited to pencil and paper, but it's still fun.
>
> Figuring out inflections can be kind of fun when I have an idea that
sounds
> cool, but for the most part, I neither like nor dislike it. The same goes
> with coming up with vocabulary, really. I get lots of ideas for grammar
> without even trying, but I wouldn't really say that I enjoy it, either,
> it just kind of comes to me, and I move on. Little things like how
> to do relative clauses or direct and indirect quotes sometimes drive
> me up the wall, though.
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:08:50PM -0600, 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?
>