Re: Back to Conlang

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:45:42 -0500, "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
wrote:

>Heh. And I'm the kinda guy who gets so many ideas but let most of them
>drop because I'm too perfectionist (everything must either be perfect, or
>not be at all). In fact, right now, my conlang is languishing in a dead
>end, because I'm less than happy about the phonology, not quite sure that
>I like the existing verb inflection patterns, and don't know what to do
>about it. :-(
What I did with Tirehlat is underline all the Tirehlat words in the master
document that contains the complete description of the Tirehlat language.
Microsoft Word is capable of doing search-and-replace operations on
underlined text, leaving ordinary text alone, and I imagine other word
processors probably have the same ability. Tirehlat went through many
iterations of changes in the phonology, and I've had two or three different
versions of the Tirehlat document around while deciding which one I
preferred to keep. I also kept the original words in blue text for
comparison. This allowed me to make radical changes in the phonology, which
I typically rejected for one reason or another, but occasionally some of
the changes turned out to be improvements. I've already redesigned the
Tirehlat verb morphology once, and I'm still not satisfied with it. But
it's a lot harder to make morphology changes, since I have to go over all
the text one case at a time in case I decide to add something like a mood
distinction. Fortunately, I don't have too many examples yet of connected
Tirehlat text, so this isn't much of a problem; one of the reasons I
haven't written much in Tirehlat is that I'm not satisfied with the
morphology.

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