Re: conculture; vocabulary

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, J.Barefoot wrote:

> Also, I'm working  on fleshing out the vocabulary for Asiteya, and this
> afternoon I derived 19 words from one root. I guess that's _OK_, but I sort
> of don't like having so many words that all _sound alike_. Plus, they get to
> be kind of long after a while (i.e., nyeifidime, a perfectly lovely word,
> but all that for "creator"?). Anyway, does anyone know of/has anyone used
> another way for creating realistic vocabulary? (I think I know the answer to
> this one, but humor me, please.)
>
Another way is making a few other languages and importing their lexemes
as loan-words in your first language (layering them of course: apply the
regular sound laws to some of the imports, but not to others).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt