Re: Using word generators (was Re: Semitic root word list?)
| From: | Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 15:38 |
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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 7:19 am, David J. Peterson wrote:
> As a result, if I haven't got a good idea how I want a word to
> sound, I tend to look around and see what phonemes are
> underrepresented, and make sure they pop up in the word I'm
> creating. It's not perfect, but it does help to prevent the same
> phonemes from being used over and over again.
>
> -David
>
When I was actively building the Cherani dictionary, I wrote a script that
would generate lists of random phonemically valid Cherani words, excluding
those already in the dictionary. Then I picked words that felt right for the
meanings. Sometimes I needed to generate several selection lists before I
found the right word, but having the random lists to look at helped decrease
the Human/English bias in the final word lists. (Cherani was a non-human
language.)
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