Re: Whee! 1000 Words! (=D

On Monday 15 July 2002 10:08 pm, you wrote:
> ----- 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
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> 220
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> >  > > > 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
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> grammar.
>
> >  > I know this because I succesfully translated a text from Illaini with
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> little
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> >  > 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?
I think he means its natural to have a complete grammer, else you do not know
what meanings you need to scribe to words :)