Re: Made some progress...

 --- Christophe wrote:

> > Thus, Hattic and Askaic both grew to about 1,300 words. Not bad, eh?
> Well, knowing that I can hardly create more than ten words during a
> weekend...
> How did you manage that?!
Well, that's the funny thing when a language grows bigger! It starts to
generate its own vocabulary. If you have 200 "basic" verbs and about 20
prefixes, it doesn't require much thinking to derive 300 new verbs in one day.
For example: "en" (in) and "hynze" (to come) -> "enhynze" (to enter). I must
add that most derived verbs of this type are a bit more creative, though.

It's always useful to have a fully functional word building mechanism. That's
what I did for Askaic, and along the way I added some new Hattic words to the
list, too. Easy, because both Hattic, Askaic, Proto-Khadurian and Megza are
part of one big Access-Database.

My favourite of this weekend was not generated according to any technique, by
the way. It's a new word for "immediately":
"muilo" (Askaic), and
"mvär" (Hattic).

> (damn real life! I'm gonna propose a refererendum to extend days up to 48
> hours! God is gonna have to learn what democracy is :))) ).
I'll vote yep!

> > So I decided to abolish the name "Hattic" (for the family, not for the
> > language), replacing it by "Khadurian".
> And is there a story behind the name "Khadurian"? :))
I've been thinking about it for a while. I wanted to get rid of the name
"Hattic" for the family and have it replaced by something that both sounds nice
and credible and fits somehow with the languages. "Khadurian" seemed to meet
those criteria. It is cognate with "Hattic" and with "chardura" (mountain).

> > I most certainly hope to become Minister of Culture in the rapidly
> > approaching Conlangers' World Government. I just can't wait for the
> > hour "H" :)))
> Hehe, what would be your first act? Create a museum of conlanging? :)
Depends. If you become Minister of Education, and you try to introduce Maggel
as the IAL to end all IALs, I might rather consider introducing a museum of
natlanging, instead :)

Frankly, our conspiration is SOOOOO perfect that we don't even know about it
ourselves :))

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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