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Re: conculture; vocabulary

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, June 20, 1999, 4:52
"J.Barefoot" wrote:
> (i.e., nyeifidime, a perfectly lovely word, > but all that for "creator"?).
How about: sunaslusaf=E1i, MY word for creator? Su- Gender prefix (non-gender-specific sentient; ti-=3Dfemale, na-=3Dmale= ) na- One who s- Antipassive (one who creates, not one who IS created) lu- Causative safa'i Come into existence Itself descended from se"hafa'qi from se"ha' (to be) plus -fa'qi (begin to)
> Anyway, does anyone know of/has anyone used > another way for creating realistic vocabulary?
Other than just mixing together derivation and unique vocabulary, I don't know. There's several ways to come up with unique roots, you can use a computer program (such as langmaker (http://www.langmaker.com)), just "come up" with them, distort English or other language words randomly, whatever floats your boat. --=20 Yaw=EDntasva natab=ED, plan saf=ED nlak=FAsi. http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor