Re: Avoiding near-collisions in vocabulary coinage

Jim Henry skrev:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>
>>>> 2. With säb zjeda, I generated a large list of potential word forms
>>>> with a Perl script that produces phonologically redundant forms
>>>> (no two are minimal pairs), and then partly automatically, partly
>>>> manually assigned meanings to those forms.
>
>> Would any of you be willing to share such a Perl script? (amply
>> commented of course, so that perpetual crawlers can understand! :-)
>
> My scripts to generate redundant vocabulary are linked from here,
>
> http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/redundancy.htm
>
> http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/redundancy-scripts.zip
>
> If anything is unclear, let me know.
>
Thanks.  I'm sure plenty will be unclear! :-)

I've had thoughts on creating a script for identifying
minimal pairs in an existing vocabulary but not come up
with anything better than sucessively replace every grapheme
of every word with \w and compare it with every other word
in the dictionary.  Any ideas?

/BP

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