Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!

Hi Sally!   I liked your talk at the Celitc Conference in Berkeley (I was the 
one with the click language who posed the idea that sound symbolism appears 
in other places).

You wrote:
<<You've got the conlang, 30,000 words in two minutes.    Now you have to 
learn it, like any natural language.  Sort of defeats the   purpose, doesn't 
it? :)>>

My point with that message, of course, was sarcasm.   As yet, I still haven't 
used the word generator to actually create words.   What I've been doing is 
putting in phonemes and historical changes just to see what kind of words I 
can get and how they look.   It's pretty neat.   But I still, just as always, 
create words the same old way: (1) Decide the word to create; (2) decide if 
it should be monomorphemic or not; (3) if so, create a form that seems to 
fit; (4) if not, find a nonmonomorphemic way to represent the idea.   It's 
still the only satisfying way.

-David

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