Re: SURVEY: Idiomatic Expressions In Your ConLang Or ConCulture

Hi!

R A Brown <ray@...> writes:
>...
> > I haven't been working on gjâ-zym-byn much lately.  I've been
> > thinking about a possible new project, and have been typing up
> > some scattered handwritten notes about it, but I'm not quite ready
> > to post here about it yet.
>
> I know the feeling only too well!
Me too, but I withstand: I tend to post conlanging results although
they are not ready to be shown...  Hope y'all don't mind (e.g. the
web-site for Da Mätz se Basa is a mess, sorry!). :-)

> But in my case, I have specifically ruled out idiomatic compounding
> from Piashi, it being an engelang.
Interesting.  My nextnextnext project (which does not even have a
sketch yet since my current project (engelang Tesäfköm) does not make
much progress, but urgently needs to be continued) will probably have
componding again to keep my life interesting.  Will you use regular
derivation with only few roots like polysynthetic (enge)langs?  If so,
will also rule out lexical specialisation of derived words?  Or will
you assign one totally unrelated word to each given concept?  Or it is
something inbetween?  Or something totally different?  I'm curious!

**Henrik

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