Re: Conlanging as a personal thing

Mike Ellis wrote:
> > Or to go even beyond that: that both writers may create new words, BUT
that
> > any person who does so must also make three cognate or related words
(i.e.
> > from the same root) or other words with concepts complementary / related
/
> > opposite to the new word. That way, every new word would seem to have
> > related words or concepts in the language PLUS the lexicon would grow
that
> > much faster.
That accounts for the rapid growth of the Kash lexicon (and one of the
reasons I have trouble remembering things)... For ex. every adjective/verb
has a potential 6 derivatives-- base, inchoative, causative, potential,
accidental (verb forms); patient/abstract noun, agent noun; to say nothing
of possible full or partial reduplications, idioms, colloq. variants.  Thus,
according to the statistics, there are 1649 head entries in the dictionary,
but considerably more words.

(Is there some way I could tell the computer to count all words in
_boldface_? That would give a more accurate count.  Oho-- could I tell it to
count "< bold > " in the html version???)

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