> Well, now I feel better. I hope I didn't bother anybody. To be
more
> conlang-related (at least at the end of the post :) ), has anybody ever
> used this mechanism to create new words (taking first syllable or
> syllables of some words and putting them together), and does this
> mechanism exist in natlangs (it would be an interesting kind of
> compounding)?
The only thing I ever did was taking the first two lettes of the name of
the case to make the form of the case. So the accusative was -ac, the
dative was -da, the genitive was -ge etc. I later changed it. Dative became
-pa (from Papiamentu 'pa').