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Re: Generating roots (wasRe: Oops, forgot something)

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Sunday, January 11, 2004, 5:37
Gary Shannon wrote:
> I was playing around with letter grids this morning > and stumbled onto a new way to generate roots for your > conlang. > > Write out the alphabet across the page and down the > left hand column. Graph paper works best. > > In the first row write the alphabet in scrambled > order. > In the second row, shift that scrambled alphabet one > to the right. > Do the same in the thrid row, fourth row, and so on to > the 26th row. > > The first few rows should look like this: > > ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP QRST UVWX YZ > ---------------------------------- > A gcma fslz itxr ydbe hwnq vkpu jo > B ogcm afsl zitx rydb ehwn qvkp uj > C jogc mafs lzit xryd behw nqvk pu > D ujog cmaf slzi txry dbeh wnqv kp > > E pujo gcma fslz itxr ydbe hwnq vk > F kpuj ogcm afsl zitx rydb ehwn qv > G vkpu jogc mafs lzit xryd behw nq > H qvkp ujog cmaf slzi txry dbeh wn > > .. and so on ... > > Now take the word you need a root for and look up a > single letter in the table for each letter pair in the > word.
Interesting. It sort of reminds me of the tables I've seen for deriving musical materials from a twelve-tone row.

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Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>