Re: Fickleness

 --- Christopher Wright sekalge:

> I find it difficult to keep working on a language for more than fifty or
> sixty words. (But then there's my near-marriage to Sturnan....) I was
> wondering if anyone has found a way to get past that stage that's perhaps
> a little more fun that just sticking it out, and how many of you have
> managed to stick it out.
No, I don't have that problem. Word creation is fun! Personally, I find
creating a morphology most interesting, but creating a vocabulary occupies a
good second place.
Thus, Hattic and Askaic have something between 1,400 and 1,500 words, Wenedyk
currently has slightly over 1,100 words, but that number is growing daily.
Other languages aren't worth mentioning.
But then, all my languages are a posteriori, so every Latin word or PIE root is
a challenge.

One thing that really helps in creating vocabulary is providing the conditions
needed for creating compounds (mainly in the form of affixes).

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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