Re: USAGE Re: Defining words and how they are used

Yes, before the tags came about, but yes, sorry.. Did not edit
fully, and working on it.. Got to not post when up for 24
hours..

The idea was, how do you design your conlang, to be precise or
open for various meanings?

I know from history, many wars started or keeps going, cause one
party thinks a word means this, and the other think it means
this, and why we have lawyers, to have someone who has a
consistant vocabulary of meanings and words, so that contracts
are clear and all parties is happy with it.

Alternate, a word that in group means one things, but outside of
that group, may not men the same thing..  Proud to be a NERD,
but someone who is not one, calling me that, can be seen as
degrading atleast by some.

Stoned for one, can mean someone on drugs, namely marijuana but
can be others, but in some places, it means drunk..

Or if your conlang was adopted a AUXLANG or NATLANG tomorrow,
how you think it would do in our world of misunderstanding cause
of word not being understood? Dictionary or what ?

Sorry, doing some free flowing here..

USAGE, okay, will see how to use it more.. Sorry, do not have
the term key here, but will try to remember them..  I can see a
need for them, as I wade through a number of posts that I
honestly can barely understand, it looks like English, but its
the Linguistics sub-group and .. Like Ebonics, good when others
speak/know it, but will see about learning more.

Jihad and Haji, well, I know in Arabic, not my area of study, so
please forgive errors..

Islam, Bismallah and Muslim are related.. They all have the SLM
root.. Only differences is the vowels you use and the other
modifier constonants? Or am I in error. While Bismallah is also
related to Allah (the Lord?). Allah is related to in context to
Baal and like. But not sure, I know Jahovah or Yahweh are
related terms, not sure how exactly, but alot has to do with
shifts of ah or al .. not sure of the ancestory of AH or AL?

Mike
I am not sure, atleast 97 but maybe earlier.. On another account
and all.. nnmca or asmca or fsmca or like name? or Morgoth or
Ghost Wheel or .. Some how wandered here form USENET or from one
of the Quenya lists? Or Klingon?

Actually my major area is paleographics, namely Ancient Scripts.

PGP - pretty good protection.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Gaughan" <kmgaughan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: USAGE Re: Defining words and how they are used


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> Eldin Raigmore wrote:
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> > Yes, it's definitely USAGE.  But, getting all hung up in
your underwear
> > about the proper use of tags is another way oldbies have
scared off newbies
> > on this list.
>
> Michael isn't exactly a newbie here. I think he's been around
at least
> as long as I have, and I started here around '98/'99.
>
> K.
>

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