Re: Lexicon Making
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 24, 2006, 20:25 |
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Hallo!
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:09:45 -0700, veritosproject@gmail.com wrote:
> When you make vocabulary, do you get a text and make what words you
> need or make the words first and then translate?
The latter; I don't like creating words "on the fly" because such hastily
created vocabulary tends to be inferior in quality to words thoughtfully
invented. Many of the words I pulled out of thin air for relay texts now
feel rather awkward to me, and are likely to be discarded again.
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