Re: Lexicon management

I mentioned earlier that I use Excel for my Lexicons.
For Rumansa, I have a separate work book with multiple pages. I use this to
conjugatre verbs for me. I can look at all the forms and if necessary, I
copy the page and make adjustments to it handle irregularites.
For Vystoulor, I have a verb inflector built into each line that will
inflect each verb for aspect & mood and create participles.
I also used Excel to "morph" a list of Latin words to derive the Rumansa
lexicon and as well, (though it took a great deal of work) I developed my a
priori roots for Vystoulor

As my job requires me to use Excel everyday, it is a natural progression for
me to use it.
Scotto

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La lureda susese lu feferu.
Success follows failure.
scotto@accesideal.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Iain E. Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:23 AM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Lexicon management
>
>
> > 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

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