Re: Basic vocabulary when starting a conlang

 --- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote: >
Quoting bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:
>
> >  --- Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...> wrote:
> >
> >      What do you think is the basic vocabulary to
> > > start a conlang?
> > >
> > >         I was thinking that there are a few
> verbs
> > > that, because of its everyday use or
> significance, should
> > > be the first to be "created": to be, to have, to
> live, to
> > > die, to go, to come. There should also be a few
> basic words,
> > > as: man, woman, child, life, death, sky, earth,
> water, fire,
> > > god. And of course, the basic personal pronouns:
> I, you,
> > > he/she/it, we, you, they.
> >
> > not necessarily. if you have a conculture with
> either
> > no sexes or more than two, then man and woman
> aren's
> > useful concepts. bac isn't based on a conculture,
> but
> > as i'm atheist it doesn't have a word for god
>
> Pray, tell, why should there be any congruence
> between your
> language and reality if you're positing no culture
> to go
> along with the language?
>
simple. bac is a language for _me_ to use ( and anyone
who wants to communicate with me in it ), so if i
don't want a generic word for 'god' i'll just go ahead
and do without

>
> (Of course, you may ignore this if you do not intend
> Bac for a human audience.)
>
> > ( it
> > borrows specific religions' terms when it needs to
> > refer to their deities, and would probably nick
> the
> > latin |deo| if referring to the western concept of
> god
>
> Surely you mean "latinate", since the Latin word for
> "god"
> is _deus_ (_deo_ only in the ablative and dative
> singular).
>
sorry to confuse you. i was quoting the stem form
rather than the nominative. bac borrows stems, rather
than dictionary reference forms, and in general i
prefer to quote these forms anyway

i would have put a hyphen after it, but i thought it
was easier as the spelling is the same ( for once ) in
bac and latin to do without

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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