Re: Avoiding near-collisions in vocabulary coinage

Hallo!

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:25:49 +0200, Lars Finsen wrote:

> Den 4. aug. 2008 kl. 22.58 skreiv Jim Henry:
>
> > I should clarify; I meant, not avoiding new words in one's conlang
> > that sound too similar to existing natlang words, but avoiding words
> > that are too similar to words already in the same conlang.
>
> My only method for this is usage. If ever I encounter two words that
> are too confusingly similar, I drop one of them and search for a
> replacement. I believe this is the way natlangs work, too. Quite a
> few similarities are in fact allowed, but if they result in too much
> confusion, replacements are sought.
Yes.  This has happened about two or three times in the past with
Old Albic.

What I do from time to time is to compile an alphabetic word list
from my thematic dictionary, mark all awkward homonyms, and change
the words in question.

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