Re: Eni -- a sort of self-introduction

Mau Rauszer sez (among other things):

>(i have two langs, one is a language (Meyadhew)
>sounding a bit like Quenya, and it's a lang spoken by the mammals of
>the whole world
Cool. Many people create languages in connection with works of fiction. For
some, they write a language and then create a world for it. For others, they
begin writing a piece with a fictional setting; in order to flesh out the
setting, they start making up a bit of a language for it. Then the whole
thing gets out of hand (as happened to me)...
And of course sometimes they develop simultaneously.

BUT the following is what got my attention in your post, and I can't be
alone in this:

>it's a language with many different dialects and many synonimes,
>around 7500 word...
Wow. 7500 words! How long have you been working on this? I've been writing a
language for three years and have less than 2500 words to show for it. 1000
was a milestone, as was 2000. 7500....
How are you composing your words? Are you translating things and filling in
the "gaps" by making words for the things you haven't covered yet? (I
imagine the diary you mentioned would help in this) Or are you just making
random words to name whatever it may occur to you to name at the moment, and
over time it built up into such a big dictionary?
That is indeed impressive. I hate to start a pissing contest here, but has
anyone else here written a language that big?

NS

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