Re: Avoiding near-collisions in vocabulary coinage

Henrik Theiling skrev:
> Hi!
>
> Jim Henry writes:
>> How do y'all avoid coining new words in your conlangs that are
>> too similar to existing ones?  ...
>
> I have used word stems that consist of redundant phonemes: i.e., I add
> one phoneme to the minimal number that would be required for
> constituing the desired set of stems, and then have the random stem
> generator ensure that each stem differs in two phonemes instead of
> only one.  You describe this exact technique youself:
>
>> ...
>> 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.
>> ...
>
> Quite like this.
Would any of you be willing to share such a Perl script? (amply
commented of course, so that perpetual crawlers can understand! :-)

/BP

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