Re: Survey (a new one!)

At 10:52 AM 9/30/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm starting a new conlang and I was curious:
>what are your first words in these cases? Do you have
>a special "test bed" for your conlangs, such as a text
>to be translated? Where do your words come from?
>
>(Take your time to answer, if you want to. This is like
>a little survey and we've had one just a few days ago --
>forgive me, Sally, for I've taken thine ideas :)

I only have one conlang, and how that got started is buried so deep in my
memory that you'll have to wait till I'm senile to find out. However, I do
from time to time experiment with variations on my conlang, usually in the
form of some sort of related language. I start with some idea of what kind
of changes I want to incorporate and test them on basic phrases, idioms,
and sentences. There isn't a set list of things I use, just whatever I
happen to think of.


Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
http://pw2.netcom.com/~sylvia1/