Re: tolkien?

Gary Shannon wrote:
> My first conlang was what, at age 10, I thought was
> the brilliant inovation of assigning a basic meaning
> to each letter and creating words by stringing
> together letters whose meaning describe the meaning of
> the desired word.
*goggles*

you did that, too? I thought I was the only one :)

I used to keep an emotion-diary, where each entry was something like
"MLJKS", and which is still (to me) quite understandable. I didn't
assign things to single letters, however; the order and combination
mattered, too. every letter had a basic set of concepts attached to it,
and you reached the specific meaning through the specific ordering and
combination.

<rant>
I've recently discovered a danger of having done that, however. now
that my conlang's dictionary has grown large enough, one can clearly
see conceptual associations for some of the root's initial letters,
even though I've made every effort _not_ to systemise it.

I've unconsciously become a loglanger and I'd like some medicine.
</rant>

---
Camilla

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