Re: Play the *junctions-game!
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 20, 2006, 20:32 |
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* Jim Henry said on 2006-03-20 21:01:51 +0100
> On 3/20/06, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> > * to come up with a minimum set of words per line: do we really need
> > both "however" and "although"?
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> It's best to give the full set of English words that correspond to
> the conlang junction-word you're defining, so a search for any
> relevant English conjunction or adverb etc. will find the conlang's
> appropriate junction-word.
I'm not a native English speaker, I don't know the full set. I made the
lists below by using a thesaurus. While I gloss my words in English (in
order to increase my potential audience), I might as well have used
Norwegian, or the ixglubs of the hyper-intelligent shade of blue as
encoded in morse.
When looking for a minimum set it often helps to look at the maximum set
- of all languages you know - and pare down from there. Now, of course a
minimum set will have lost some of the meanings covered by the maximum
set. There are no perfect synonyms after all, it's just that some
meanings are more prominent, and more necessary to keep, than others.
IIRC I read a glossing-guide somewhere that recommended *not* listing
all the relevant words of the glosser's native language in the gloss...
blasted memory, where was it? SIL?
t., who's still stuck with writer's block for what *ought to* be written
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