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.
**Henrik