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Re: Survey (a new one!)

From:Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 30, 1998, 15:03
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 ! ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/conlang/?start=16520 -- Free e-mail group hosting at http://www.eGroups.com/