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Re: Word Construction for a New Conlang

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Friday, July 9, 1999, 2:37
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.) -- languages of Kolagia---> = +---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>--- Thryomanes /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print = any (Herman Miller) / thing till they were sure it would offend no = body, moc.oi @ rellimh <-/ there would be very little printed." -Ben = Franklin