Re: making up words

Peter Clark sekalge:
>The solution is to just exterminate with extreme prejudice any
extrenuous
>vowels.
Does that mean to hack them to pieces with an axe?

Anyway, Sean Burke sekalge:
> A question to all language constructors:  once you've settled on the
> phonology and phonotaxis of your language-in-progress, how do you go
about
> making up the phonological forms of new words (as opposed to their
> meaning)?
I do it by translating. I need a muse, which is usually anything with
words; I don't listen to it, but it's there. I'm best when I modify
existing words. When the phonology is very constricted (less than 1500
possible syllables), I can use a word generator, which I do when I'm
being lazy. That's how I did Runda and Kuanaukuasi. If I try it with less
restriction, the generator turns out only ugly words.


The poll-responder,
Chris Wright

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