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Re: Conlanging skills? (was Re: Myers-Briggs Types and stuff.)

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Monday, September 28, 1998, 2:45
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 10:59:30 -0500, Laurie Gerholz <milo@...>
wrote:

>So back to the topic, I'd say that generating good phonology is more >difficult for me in a conlang, than either generating the vocabulary or >the syntax. > >For the rest of you, which parts of conlanging are easy and which are >difficult? How does that influence the conlangs you create, or how you >document them?
I haven't had much problem with phonology. I can pronounce most sounds of different languages that I've heard, although I always find the uvular r difficult. I generally have a good feel for what a language should sound like, although I haven't written down the formal rules for many of my languages. I'm not as good at memorizing vocabulary as I used to be. I used to know every word of Olaetyan (and I still remember many of them), but with the newer languages, I have to look up words more often. I don't think that syntax is particularly difficult for me, although I've tended to neglect it in favor of vocabulary. I'd say that vocabulary is probably the hardest part of the language once it gets above a certain minimal size, but I also tend to spend more time devising vocabulary than playing with syntax rules and phonology.