Re: My own taxonomic listing

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:30:13PM -0400, Sally Caves wrote:

> > It's kind of scary to see it all laid out like that!  My adolescent
> > preoccupations are all laid bare.  Separation, change, the heavens, trees,
> > 15 distinct roots for mental processes or conditions.  At the same time,
> > the glorious confusion of the vocabulary is pulled apart to reveal its
> > gaping holes.
>
> I don't see that it's adolescent at all, Amanda.
Considering that this stuff was invented when I was 13, I would say it is ;)
Those were the preoccupations of my adolescent years.

> > > (By the way, which two words are
> > > the long pompous ones you can't get rid of?  I love my Erahenahil, which
I think I've forgotten to mention that I love your Erahenahil too!  It flows
off the tongue.

Well, now I have all my words.  What to do with them?  I need to define their
semantic scopes so that they're not (as they currently are) calques of English.
And that requires digging through the original papers to see how I was using
them at the time (I have a word glossed as "as".  That could mean so many
different things...)

I took a preliminary look at the papers Wednesday night.  One of the more
surprising things was how long I was still using the old more English-like
verb tense system and standalone pronouns (no verb agreement).  I think the
majority of the writings are from that period!  I had been thinking of it
as a brief misstep that happened before things really got underway.  (Maybe
it was a brief but prolific misstep...)

Ah, conlang archaeology... the *other* preoccupation of the conlanger...

Amanda