Re: Survey (a new one!)

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 :)
>
>
> --Pablo Flores
>
>
Hi Pablo !
Your question is interesting and I'd appreciate if you could keep us informed of
the pole result. I think conlangers would be interested in knowing more about
what prompts others - and maybe themselves as well - conlanging (family
background ?) I was amazed to discover as I was 15 that one of my recent
ancesters was actually also a conlanger !!! His language was very different
from mine though.
To answer your question :
Some conlang words come accross my mind spontaneously; in other cases, I try to
figure out what would a specific concept sound to me in a given
semantico-phonoligical pattern.
The first sconlang words that came spontaneously (sans riflichir) to my mind one
day as I was tidying up my bed (age : 12) were :
nga : group
shun : do
ok/shu : hand
nu/num : think
ennuf : aspire
otl : foot
ki : eye
pon : can (pouvoir)
to : straight
ma : have
gon : stone
kon : obey
za : man
ti : woman
sa : water
teik : wall
ktetkatl : chief (why such a complicated word ?)
ktao : possess
tka : fall
jul : flow
shin : yellow (I can figure why)
enli : animal
tu : eat
ku : lying
wu/wun : go
pa : and
pan : turn, rotate, time
geif : fire
tlat : speak
nepi : infant
che, tesh : from
u : of/that
shun : way, manner
pok : head
un : good
mal : big
ma/te : not
tlu : cry, tears, rain (!)
Maybe it's what you asked for, maybe not. I have very vivid memories on my first
conlanging days, how I felt then, how it developped, which first syntax I used,
etc. I'm now interested again in that period because I realize it was very
different from what I was learning at school.
Bye !






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