Re: "Transferral" verb form in LC-01

<<snip interesting discussion>>

    Yeah, that really puts it in perspective, concerning the minimal
vocabulary.


In a message dated 06/25/02 2:27:00 PM, butsuri@BTOPENWORLD.COM writes:

<< So, as far as practical conlanging goes, I'm not interested in
achieving that goal.  I'm just deriving in order to avoid wasting
roots (current rules allow only 2630 roots, although these are due for
renovation) and to make the language as transparently predictable as
possible. >>

    That few?  How many consonants do you have?  In my triconsonantal root
language, I don't have to worry, because I have (I think) forty consonants,
which allows for 64,000 roots, which would allow me to have, you know, twenty
different words for "to carry", if I wished, and not worry at all about
economy.  Or do you have a fixed phonemic inventory?  (I was trying to go
backwards, and I came up with 13-14 consonants?)  What I mean is, did you
specifically want there to be fewer roots or a small phonemic inventory?

-David

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