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?

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