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

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.