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?


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