Re: lexicons

What I've been doing with Tazhi is discovering one single root, and applying
all the various prefixes and suffixes that Tazhi has to derive related
words.  That way I get about a dozen new words in my dictionary for every
new root I discover.

--gary.

-----Original Message-----
From: FFlores <fflores@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: lexicons


>Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...> wrote:
>> nicole wrote:
>>
>> > Since I'm only working on my first conlang, I really have no experience
>> > on which words to include in my lexicon (which words are most common,
>> > most "important," etc.)
>[snip]
>>
>> Just begin witing in your conlang (either translating or generating
>> original work) things that are relevant
>[snip]
>> When you are writing you will need some vocabulary and that is the
>> vocabulary you are getting.
>>
>
>Exactly. Even if you have a list of important concepts,
>it's tedious to translate them one by one, and you miss
>a lot of the associations you could have made if you were
>including them in a coherent text. It becomes mechanic and
>then you have to revise the words...
>
>I wonder if you've received the posts with "translation exercises"
>that have been being sent (!?!) over the last few weeks or months.
>Some texts you could try include the Babel text (which is quite
>general except for the name of God, and should trigger some other
>words to be created), and the Cherokee legend about the origin
>of strawberries [sent by Irina Rempt (?)]. Have you got/tried those?
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
>
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