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

From:Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...>
Date:Monday, August 16, 1999, 9:20
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. >
Same for me. That's why generally my language have no lexicon, or very poor ones.
> On my newest conlang i changed my mind and decided to keep "to be" instead > of getting rid of it :). Also, my first translation project will be the > first verse of a song i recently "re-discovered" (Seasons Change - by > Exposi). That song is also kind of partly the reason i started creating > the second language :). > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > "Raw to the floor like reservoir dogs" - A.V. Helden > ____________________________________________________________________
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