Re: Eni -- a sort of self-introduction

Nihil Sum  <nihilsum@...> 2002.08.03. 16:39:45 -7h-kor írta:
> Mau Rauszer sez (among other things):
> 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.
Yeah, that happened with my Long Wer. I started it for the novel Hia and Mau but now
it's almost my second 'native tongue' :) I simply love this language, and now
I'm developing it from roots to high-quality full-featured language. It
probably won't have so much synonimes as its mother Meyadhew but will be
capable to express things in a very elegant style.

> 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?
Both of them. Fist I translated text and made the grammatical skeleton and then I
found a worlist on the web with 1600 glish words. this seved a basis to me to
build on. I mostly left out words connecting with the human being such as
things made by men or indicated as 'late domesticaded usage' but averagely they
have six words for one.

I created this in two full months (or two and a haf I can't remember) but then I
almost thought about that all the day. (even in the first month I gone to
schoolm with a bunch of papers to write on, then school ended so i had TIME :)
I borriowed words I've heard and it sounded good and meyadhew-like (this also a
characteristic of my Long Wer) but the majority of my word just came out from
my mind. But this wordlist still have to be revised many times as I'm just at
the beginning.
It's intended to be a language changing very quickly because the billions who speak it.

-- Mau

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