Re: Weekly vocab revival?

Might a newbie be so brash as to ask, what the weekly
vocab is?

/Kalle

--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> skrev:

> Dear fellow conlangers!
>
> Recently, I was thinking of reviving the weekly
> vocab.  And the first
> step of continuation is, as we all know from TV, the
> rerun.
>
> So I was thinking of posting automatically every
> week one of the old
> weekly vocabs that currently sleep in the archives.
> It is currently
> fodder for more than half a year of work, I think
> (there are > 30
> posts IIRC).
>
> The idea is that it is much easier to find the
> motivation for
> inventing vocab if someone else provides you with
> small chunks of work
> regularly.  And since there are new conlangs, we
> need new vocab.  Some
> people have stated here that vocab is hard for them
> to work at, so I
> suppose some motivation would be good.  Therefore, I
> think, the old
> weekly vocabs may validly be reposted.
>
> Whenever someone comes up with a new set of words, I
> will happily
> enqueue it into the automatical weekly posting
> mechanism, with higher
> priority so that original vocab will be posted
> first.  This would also
> take the burden of continuously thinking of new
> vocab from one single
> person and distribute it -- I would simply gather
> what whoever sends
> to me and enqueue it, keeping it at small, regular
> chunks.
>
> What do y'all think?
>
>   **Henrik
>

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