I also like the triliterals, which the Semitic and some African
families use.
The Polynesian families use bisyllabic roots. They are my 2nd-
favorite pattern.
Check out Richard A. Morneau's "Lexical Semantics" page for a lot of
good ideas. You don't want to use them all because you'll just come
up with a clone of his interlingua; but several of them are good
labor-saving ideas, by which if you've already come up with a word or
two, you can re-use the roots to derive more words.
--Tom
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Edward Miller <sewerbird@G...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> If you are willing to adjust your language and structure,
Triconsonantal
> Morphology is a good, productive system to create words. I have the
same
> trouble making diverse, interesting sets of words, so creating a
template of
> "letter patterns I like" seemed like a good solution. You have to
really put
> your all into creating the patterns, but after that
>
> On 5/20/05, Adam F. <hypaholic@a...> wrote:
> >
> > I am really bad at creating words. I have tried several different
ways of
> > doing this, but I am never satisfied with the results. I have
taken the
> > word for something from two different languages and combined it
in some
> > way to get a new word, I have used programs to generate randon
words, and
> > I have made them up off the top of my head. Does anyone have any
> > suggestions of other techniques that I might want to try?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adam
> >
>
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