> From: Patrick Jarrett [mailto:gtg346g@MAIL.GATECH.EDU]
> I've found this post quite interesting but I'm having trouble
> locating where the quotes originated to follow previous discussions.
Do you mean you can't find the prior messages? Let me dig them out of the
archives for you:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0408b&L=conlang#25
> I'm still fairly new to linguistics and conlanging, though
> I've lurked on the list for well over a year now, hoping to
> learn (mostly through osmosis).
I'm doing the same. For the most part, I don't feel I have something to
contribute, so I lurk, and try to learn...
> I manage my lexicon by a simple excel file, which I have
> learned to back up nightly. It's on my USB Flash Pen drive so
This is the way mine started. A simple list in Excel (I can't remember what
form it was in before that, at some point it had to come from Wordperfect,
but that was a long time ago). You think up other things to do with it as
you go along.
> I just carry it wherever I am on campus and plug into one of
> the lab machines and work on it some more.
I so need one of those gadgets. :)
> My Excel sheet is fairly basic, the most advanced feature
> telling me how "complete" my lexicon is based on the number
> of English words which are entered but do not contain a Durin
> translation.
*grin*. Keeping score is part of Excel fun!
Iain