Re: OT: Canada is severely insulted by US official.

 --- Sarah Marie Parker-Allen skrzypszy:

> I've been putting it off, but I'm absolutely certain that my languages are
> going to be full of political terms that are, quite frankly, obscure or
> little-used by the general population.  My elves are going to be able to
> debate capital gains policies (I'm a poli sci major, ONE CLASS away from
> graduating -- I hope)
Well, it's your language. It seems quite logical that during the creative
process you assign words to meaning that occupy you. Or, on the other hand,
that you omit those meanings that you don't care for at all.
Depends also what you use your language for. When it is your personal language
that you write notes in etc., having such vocabulary is more likely than when
you are just toying with grammar and a minimal lexicon.

> Anyway, does anyone else have a problem with having
> way too much vocabulary for their pet topic(s)?
I don't have a problem with it. But I can't say I have done it myself, partly
because I don't have a pet topic (or rather: I have too many of them).
I did coin some political words in Hattic and Wenedyk, but not enough to
discuss the tariff barrier on a sophisticated level.

> [my other pet topics are fiction writing and history; thankfully history
> is full of proper names ^_^]
Harry Potter, right? I'm just reading the second book now, and enjoying it
much.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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