Re: Word Construction for a New Conlang
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 9, 1999, 2:37 |
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:07:02 -0700, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
> As a neophyte, I often started
>out with long words and attached a definition to them that prevented
>me from parcing the word: tatilynarpim: "disgust." Where did that
>come from????? What's tatily? narpim?
Some of my early languages suffered from the same problem, especially
Niskloz. A few extreme examples: "l=E4rezhaghue" =3D "month", =
"zalaph=EEv=F6rar" =3D
"card", "airunzheviarg" =3D "to dance", "senekhakidh" =3D "brain". When I=
get
around to reforming Niskloz, if I even decide to revive it (it wasn't one
of my better languages, despite its relatively large vocabulary), I'll
probably want to set a limit on the length of basic roots.
(Strangely enough, my first language, Olaetyan, turned out a lot better
than my second language, Niskloz, which is almost a word-for-word
equivalent of English.)
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