Re: Survey (a new one!)

At 10:52 30/09/98 -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 :)
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
>
>
        Well, I don't really have "first words" in my languages. When I
begin creating a language, it's because I've had a grammatical or
phonological idea that I want to exploit into a new language (for example, I
designed Moten because I had the idea of a language with totally regular
morphological changes that would be so many that the language would seem
irregular). So the lexicon is only the second part of my work. Generally, I
begin creating the lexicon with grammatical words (personals, possessives,
examples for declinations and conjugations) and when the grammar is
finished, I begin adding words when I have ideas. I've got no plan of creation.

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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