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Re: Word Construction for a New Conlang

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Thursday, July 8, 1999, 5:20
edheil@postmark.net writes:
>Do the rest of you start with this kind of harcore linguistics >description and proceed to specific words, or vice versa, or somewhere >in between, or some cycle between the two, or something entirely >different? Where did your words come from? > >I'm curious how other people work, especially people who, like me, do >not have a really hardcore linguistics background with exposure to a >lot of natlangs and formal descriptions thereof.
My 2 centavos.... Well i dont have any training linguistically, so i'm not up to par on all of these discussions on linguistic terms (Like the recent mediopassive thread), which is why i dont usually participate much in them. For my languages i kind of pick and choose features i like. As for words, i use natlangs that have word construction i like, and follow its "pattern". For instance, Tagalog, which is where i derived the words for my most recent conlang, I noticed tagalog seems partial to K, N, Ng, A. So, most of my words have those sounds. For me its mostly just making up a word and seeing in my mind if it sounds right, if it doesnt i tweak it a bit. Its a bit ofg a long process, but its better than having words that dont sound right. ____________________________________________________________________ "Bailando en el fuego con un gran deseo" - India ____________________________________________________________________