Re: Survey (a new one!)

Pablo Flores 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?
When I first start a conlang, I first decide the phonology.  Then, I
work on the grammar, and I create a few words, usually words like "see",
"hit", "man", and so on, so that I can create a few basic sentences to
try out gramatical ideas, for example:
I see the man
I hit the man
I hit the man who killed my brother

and so on.  Once I've got a small vocabulary, and some idea of what the
grammar's like, I try my hand at more complex, real-world, sentences.
No special text, tho.  Just sentences culled from books or whatever.

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