Re: Hello all: I'm new...a quick question about vocabularies

David Bush wrote:

>         My question is this: how do you people decide on the vocabularies
> of your conlangs?  I set my sights too high for Kesa with a goal to
> translate 15,000 English words.  I got up to 2,500.  I have a hard time
> limiting my vocabularies under 2,000 words.  What are your meathods?
I started out with a goal of 8000 words for Nova but have since
discarded all numerical goals.  For Nova its better to let the
vocabulary grow naturally as I learn more about its conculture.  I
was up to 2300 words but am now weeding and expect to see that figure
drop to about 2000.  There were just too many that were not in the
spirit of Nova.
As for Feorran, I had no goal whatsoever.  I am just inventing words as
I need them.
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