Re: Lexicons and Language Borrowing

-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Caves <scaves@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Lexicons and Language Borrowing


>Irina Rempt wrote:
>
>> I'm curious how other people come up with words - I know some people
>> who can sit down and *make* them, but if I try that I usually have to
>> throw away ninety-five percent of the result.
>
I have a handfull of computer programs I've written that flood the screen
with words based on whatever rules I felt like coding into the program.  I
scan through the list and click on the ones I like and they get saved to a
file.  Then when I need a word I browse the files for something that seems
to fit the present need.

--Gary.