Re: Word Construction for a New Conlang
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| Date: | Thursday, July 8, 1999, 7:20 |
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Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 08/07/99 06:23:59 , Ed a =E9crit :
> >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.
0. sunday morning. 7 am.
1. tell everyone you're having a hockey match today.
2. put the kids if any in front of tv set and switch it on.
3. call your buddies.
4. tell them you can't play the hockey match too bad.
5. get out, walk deep in a desert forest.=20
6. start speaking alone with random words sounding nice.
7. ponder the pattern of the best words.
8. back home. switch off tv. "match cancelled". coffee ? mass ?
mathias=20
(still with no kids but plenty little cousins)