Re: Hello all: I'm new...a quick question about vocabularies
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 4:31 |
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:36:50 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:
> The best method to create a lexicon is to translate texts (I =
should
>use this method but I never do it -do what I say, not what I do!-). You =
can
>then think of derivations and others things that enhance your vocabulary
>without adding new words (I use this method very widely).
I got a lot of good new words in Jarrda (and improvements of existing
words) from just translating newspaper headlines, one or two a day, for a
couple of months. Actually, come to think of it, I used to translate text
that I had already written in English into Olaetyan and Rynnan, and I
translated parts of Adventure (the original Colossal Cave text adventure
game) into Olaetyan and Siralla. (That's why I have words like =
"alabaster"
and "twisty" in the Olaetyan dictionary.)