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?

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