Re: Size of your dictionary

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:
> How many words does your conlang(s) have?
The Senjecan basic lexicon contains, at present, 4039 words.  Since vocabulary
building is one of my favorite parts of conlanging, that is sure to grow.  This
4039 is simply basic words, not compounds, each one a separate root.  There is
also a separate lexicon for the Senjecan fauna containing the names of 223
animals, and one for the flora containing the names of 80 plants.  Again these are
simple words, not compounds.

As an example of compounds, the lemma 'dwo', two, has, at present, 44 compounds in
the entry, e.g, biscuit, bicuspid, equivocal, bigamy, bicycle, scissors.  That is
an extreme, of course, but I would estimate that the total number of words,
including the compounds, must be at least three times as many.

> Also, how do you keep your dictionary organized?
Nothing elaborate, simply Word documents, four different documents for the
dictionary because there are so many words.  It's easy to find what I want by
using 'find.'  I am also gradually putting the lexicons on wiki.frath.  I'm only
putting the basic words on wiki.frath.  I feel that including all the compounds
would take up too much space.

Charlie