Re: Whee! 1000 Words! (=D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim May" <butsuri@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Whee! 1000 Words! (=D


> Joe writes:
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...>
>  > To: <CONLANG@...>
>  > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:40 AM
>  > Subject: Re: Whee! 1000 Words! (=D
>  >
>  >
>  > > Two replies in one...
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > --- In conlang@y..., "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@Q...> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > Congrats. You must be proud of yourself. :-)
>  > >
>  > > I do have some pride for Obrenje, but the credit is not all mine,
>  > > the language has evolved quite independently on the "genome" that
>  > > I gave it.  ;-)
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > > Ahh, Ebisedian is still in its infancy. It's currently only about
220
>  > > > words strong, although it has a grammar detailed enough to make one
>  > > > cringe.
>  > >
>  > > LOL, I know the feeling.  Obrenje is rather benign in terms of
>  > > grammar, but the grammar was already at a functional level of
>  > > completeness when the vocab was still around a hundred words.  =P
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
>  > Well, Zitwbata has 162 words, and it's fairly complete in terms of
grammar.
>  > I know this because I succesfully translated a text from Illaini with
little
>  > to no trouble.
>
> This all seems natural enough to me.  How can you decide what words
> will be necessary until you know how they'll be used?
>
Never mind, I understand now.

Yes, I agree.  The first thing was the Phonology, followed by the grammar.
However, the Grammar was somewhat incomplete, so I had to devise a load of
grammatical particles/prefixes.