Re: CHAT: Conlang dreams revisited, and Memorization

Roger Mills wrote:
> Learning
> a conlang would have to be different, no give and take, unless you talk to
> yourself (I do)-- still, most of the formal bits of my  Kash grammar have
> stuck in me brain; vocabulary is retained at least for a while, depending on
> the most recent translation.
Vocabulary's the toughest part for me, too.  But grammar I have
difficulty with also.  It's very difficult to study one's own conlang.
Indeed, my biggest accomplishment so far has been the translation of the
phrase "the world must die" [used to express frustration - not mean
literally of course!] in to W in probably half a minute or so.  The
hardest part was remembering what the prefix for "must" was (it was
lib-).  If interested, it is "libyawínna pigallá".  I didn't say it out
loud, of course, but the exercise of translating it did relieve some of
the tension.  :-)

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