Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

Andrew NOwicki wrote:

> JvS> Now be serious, Andrew. Are you saying that a language
> JvS exists only as soon as it has made its entrance on the
> JvS web? Not everybody has a computer, and even those who
> JvS have one are not automatically able to create websites.
> Those who do not have a computer cannot use this mailing list.
> Making a web file and sending it to a website is a trivial task.
That's not necessarily the case. Sitting down and sending a few emails is
one thing. But as far as languages go, many of us (myself included) work
primarily on paper. Finding the time to sit down and type up entire
notebooks' worth of grammatical rules and vocabulary is another thing
entirely.

> AN> By the way, most vocabulary sizes listed in LangMaker.com
> AN> are exaggerated, sometimes by several orders of magnitude!
> I spent a few hours comparing the stated vocabulary
> size with the one posted on the web. I did not count
> every word, just made a rough estimate.
See above. It's very possible, I would venture perhaps even common, to have
a web page up with, say, only 500 words on it, but to also have a notebook
with, say, 1500 more words on it lying around, which you just haven't had
the time to type up. Your language's total vocabulary is still 2000 words,
even if somebody looking at your web page only sees a quarter of those.

Regards,

Thomas