Re: CHAT: Most boring part of constructing a new language?

Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:

> I'm just curious, what do you all feel is the most boring part of
> conlanging? For me it is giving meanings to all the roots (i find
> everything else fun). So far I mostly have only worked on the roots for=
 my
> language (i have up to 300 so far). Anyway, just thought I would ask.=20
I don't think creating words is boring, but it *is* the part
of conlanging I enjoy less at first. But I've never begun a
language saying "well, I need x roots" and then making them.
I translate, some words I just like to have, etc.

In Drasel=E9q I have so far about 900 morphemes, of which maybe
800 are roots. At this point I do enjoy making new words, since
I have a lot of material to work with for derivation, compounding,
etc., and new words come out more naturally. But getting to this
point, with my non-systematic approach, took me about two years.
That's one of the reasons I refrain from starting new languages
these days... because I know I'll leave them 'unfinished'.


--Pablo Flores