Memorization (conlang version)

[This message comes in two versions, one for Conlang and
one for Conculture.]

I just received a message from someone who came across my
pages, with the following very interesting questions:

> Do you have any methods for ease of learning an artifically
> created language ? In old societies, have you ever wondered how
> the scribes memorized the torah, or mahabarata ?
Does anyone know about this? What do *you* do when you want to
learn a new language fast? For conculturers, please see my post
to Conculture... Has any of you attempted to memorize their
conlang's lexicon?

Myself, I'm pretty bad at memorizing stuff unless I'm very
interested. I have a very good memory for useless things,
like the 10 first digits of pi, but in general I prefer to
compute rather than store (not that discussion again...).


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html