Re: Conlang Word Usage Statistics

On 2003.02.03 15:02 Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> I got curious about how many times "etabnannery," "maggelity," and
> their
> various forms have been used in the life of Conlang.  I have even more
> detailed notes than just the summaries below, but I doubt anyone else
> cares.  :P
No, I care muchly. Do you have details of e.g. how much everyone uses
each word? who the first to use each was (for the -itys, I think it's
*Muke)? when they're used? And anything else you might have.

> One thing I noticed that I hadn't quite expected was that even
> the creators of the languages use various forms -- Tristan has used
> "etabnannimous" mostly, but recently used "etabnannic;" Christophe has
> used "maggelish," and more recently "maggelitinous" and "maggelitous."
Well, there's hardly a well-defined rule of how -itys form adjectives,
mainly because -ity forms nouns from adjectives, so the likelihood is
that there's already an adjective.

I started using 'etabnannimous' because I think that's the first
adjective used, but then converted to 'etabnannic' because I thought it
sounded better. (I also think you might find some difference in the two
words; sometimes one sounds better than the other... but maybe not)
Strange, though, how the Romancelang-speaker uses a Germanic
adjective-suffix, but the Germaniclang-speaker uses a Romance
adjective-suffix.

> Anyhow, here're the useless statistics.  <grin>
I'm sure when Oxford realises it's necessary to include these words in
the OED, they won't consider them useless.

> People who have used a form of "etabnannery":  Arthaey Angosii,
> Christophe
> Grandsire, John Cowan, Joseph Fatula, Muke Tever, Sally Caves, Shreyas
> Sampat, Tristan.
>
> NOUN:
> 10 - etabnannery
>         Arthaey, Christophe, Sally, Muke, Tristan
>  1 - etabnanneri
>         Tristan
I think you can knock that one of as a typo and move it to the
'etabnannery' category (perhaps with a note if you want).

>  1 - etabnannity
>         Joseph
>
> ADJECTIVE:
>  7 - etabnannimous
>         Christophe, John, Shreyas, Tristan
>  2 - etabnannerious
>         Arthaey
>  1 - etabnannerihs
>         Sally
That one's no doubt an attempt at 'etabannerish' (though it's used it
'maggelihs', too... is this some conlang form? Is Sally just now off
the list and unable to read that question?).

>  1 - etabnannic
>         Tristan
I've used it more than that, I'm sure! (Actually, all your numbers seem
oddly low.)

>  1 - etabnanninous
>         Christophe
>
> People who have used a form of "maggelity":  Adrian Morgan, Amanda
> Babcock,
> Andreas Johansson, Andrew Smith, bnathyuw, Daniel Andreasson, Danny
> Wier,
> HS Teoh, Isaac A Penzer, Jan van Steenbergen, Jeff Jones, Joe, Josh
> Roth,
> JYS Czhang, Padraic Brown, Peter Clark, Mau Rauszer, Robert B Wilson,
> Roger
> Mills, Steg Belsky, Stephen Mulraney; plus all the etabnannery-users.
All you peoples are in my bad books until you use 'etabnannery' is a
legitimate sense.

> NOUN:
>  86 - maggelity
>          Amanda, Andrew, Arthaey, bnathyuw, Christophe, Daniel, Danny,
>          HS Teoh, Isaac, Jan, Jeff, Joe, John, Joseph, Josh, JYS
> Czhang,
>          Mau, Muke, Padraic, Peter, Robert, Roger, Sally, Tristan
>   1 - maggelities
>          Sally
That's just a variant (pl) of 'maggelity'.

>   1 - maggel-ness
>          JYS Czhang
>
> "Techsim" is used three times, by Danny Wier, and is also in Andreas's
> conlang dicitonary.  "Ebisedic" is used twice, both by HS Teoh (in
> response to Andreas's conlang dictionary).  Ditto for "ferochromic."
What's Andreas' conlang dictionary? I've only heard of mine
(<http://zsau.firespeaker.org/conlangdic.pdf>). I think actually it's
mine you're speaking of. And 'ebisedic' and 'ferochromic' were posted,
*then* I decided to make the dictionary, then he made the follow-up
comments. (My definitions for maggelity and etabnannery have been
floating around since the dawn of time, or at least the post after Muke
defined them, which is why H. S. Teoh's definitions looked like they
were in dictionary-definition form.)

> So, now that I've wasted a good amount of time playing around with
> this, I have homework to do.  ;)
Interesting, though!

Tristan.

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