Re: [conlang] Digest Number 432

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Irina Rempt wrote:
> > I accidentally caused one a few weeks ago:
> >
> > custa  - to catch
> > custen - frog
> >
> > The mundane explanation is that I'd forgotten to delete the root from
> > the Spare Roots File, the in-culture explanation has to do with
> > eating frogs' legs...
>
> Why not just let it be co-incidence?  Every language has accidental
> homophones.
Well, it is coincidence in both worlds, but I like to commit folk
etymology :-)

> That's one reason I don't have a "spare roots".
My reason to have it is that I'm not imaginative enough to create
something new every time I need it, and I have to guard against
having too few roots (too many duplicates). It's the same with names:
people complain that everybody in Valdyas is called the same, and
that's because I haven't been able to come up with enough different
names that still sound right. A new one comes up from time to time,
but I can't just sit down and create things because I have to throw
out 90% of what I do.

   Irina

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