Re: weekly vocab

Dugga Coller ascelle:


>I admire the discipline, but wonder if I'll be able to keep up. I've
>tried it before myself and found it difficult to keep inventing words
>out of whole cloth rather than coming up with them as I need them for
>translation or original writing. It's the same process of creation,
>to be sure, but it sometimes feels weird to create a word for, say,
>"flamingo", when a sentence which would need it hasn't arisen yet. So
>we'll see.

   You know, I thought of that problem too. Indeed, half of the words I
derived and posted to the list have gone byebye already. I was thinking
that having a theme each week might help. For example, zoo week, wherein
the 5 (or 10) words would all have to do with the zoo. Or the computer wee,
or the stew week, or the birthday week, or...

   I could also, with a little work, come up with a short sentence or two
that used all the presented words. Or a sentence per word. As the task is
completely voluntary, people could ignore it as they see fit, but it could
help provide context when creating the words.

   Any preferences, anyone?

   Aidan

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