Re: basic vocab
| From: | Ajin-Kwai <wpii@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 17, 2000, 14:35 |
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mario Bonassin wrote:
> Do any of you have a special list of words that you use to start
> creating root words or basic vocab for your various conlangs, or do you
> use a text of something, or do you have another way of deciding what
> words to create, aside from just going through a dictionary?
>
> Mario
>
In addition to the wordlists and websites, I'd suggest finding some good
cultural anthropology and cross-cultural philosophy texts. It's amazing
how many basic assumptions about physical and metaphysical reality are
encoded by a culture in its language and metaphors. Just opening up new
ways of seeing the world from the ground up will provide you with endless
lexical ideas simply because they don't exist in your native language ...
a liu,
.yasmin.