Re: Size of your dictionary

Daniel Bowman wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> How many words does your conlang(s) have?  I realize that this might be a
> tricky question to answer depending on how you define "word."
>
> Angosey currently has about 770.  Maybe a quarter of these are "dead" words
> that I don't really use from day to day.  I've committed maybe half to
> memory, although now that I'm keeping a diary, my memorization is lagging
> behind.
>
> Also, how do you keep your dictionary organized?  I wrote an excel macro
> that allows me to enter words and also search by word, grammatical type, and
> English keyword.  I can make it available if other people want to use it,
> but it may be a while-it's not working correctly yet!
>
> Danny
>
Teliya Nevashi is relatively slow growing. It's up to about 240ish
entries, counting a few affixes, but not including personal pronouns or
numbers. I rather expect it to hit 300ish this weekend. (I don't have
any other plans, for a change.)

My dictionary is kept in a Google docs spreadsheet. I actually have 3
versions of it-- the 'raw' dictionary,  where I add words as they are
made, in three columns (Nevashi, English, Notes),  one alphabetized by
the English entries and one alphabetized by the Nevashi entry. I just
use the browser 'find' when I need to find something or check for
duplicates.

The ea-luna spreadsheet (not online) has about 900 entries that I have
gathered from the ea-luna notebook, but there are still more left to
enter, not counting compound words. (I am still hoping that my list of
compound words turns up. There is a disadvantage to keeping conlang
documentation in different notebooks and slips of paper.)

Mia.