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Re: Whee! 1000 Words! (=D

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, July 15, 2002, 18:02
----- 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? >
Sorry, I don't get you? Qhat do you mean?