----- 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?