Re: Vocab building (was Lunatic Survey)
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 8:27 |
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:12:51 -0500, Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
wrote:
>Jeff Jones said:
>>I don't have any workable method for vocabulary building.
>
> Do all your languages have miniature vocabularies, or do you borrow, or
> what?
microscopic vocabularies in most cases. Rubaga has the whole classical
Latin vocabulary to work from, but I don't know yet which words will end up
in Rubaga or whether they'll have the same meaning. I've borrowed some
temporary words for some other languages just to test the grammar, but many
of these don't really belong. I've tried adding words when doing relay
translations, but I usually don't like them. In 'Yemls, borrowings are
supposed to be clever.
Jeff
> And speaking of this, how does everyone else make their vocabularies? I
> usually do it by translation, since it's fun, if tedious, and the words
> are instantly useful, or at least used.
>
>Chris Wright