Re: Typing the lexicon (was: [SHOEBOX] "Morphophonemic form gives cyclical pa...

In a message dated 7/24/00 2:57:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Zhang2323@AOL.COM writes:

> EEk!
>      I must be crazy. I have been doing my work on Lingwa Frakas (my pidgin
>  ConLang) on 3 x 5 index cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>      Z
I don't know, I think there's a certain charm to keeping your language away
from computers.  I didn't document a single word of rodnús on anything but my
notebook or the walls of my dorm for the first 3 months of its creation. I
find the complete lack of organisation (e.g. having to skim my entire
notebook for each and every word I wrote, usually 3 or 4 times a sentence)
adds to the labyrinthian feel I try to get in my language (e.g. coining the
same word 3 times, misreading my own handwriting).  after aboue three month
point, this gets to be a bit much and a little digital intervention becomes
necessary ,for myself at least.

Joe Mondello