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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->GreenDragon</b>
on <!--date-->14:00 7/12/02
<p>In reply to: <a href="452.html">Vocabulary Creation?!?</a> posted by Matt</b> on 17:01 7/1/02
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The reason that I feel disatisfied by computer generating words for a lexicon is because I don't feel that they are "mine". Also i don't know which words to derive or to create. I get confused thinking that I need a set ammount of roots and then i just derive all the words from those. If that is the case, what are the roots that i am supposed to make up?
Matt
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Do you think there's an 'official list of roots'? Most languages have
a few thousand roots, at least, and what's a root in one language may be
a derived word in another.
<p>It might help to read an introductory book on semantics; or examine
the etymologies in any good dictionary. There's many ways to derive
a word; for instance, here are a few ways to derive 'world':
<p>ordered arrangement (Greek)
<br>inhabited (lands) (Greek)
<br>(place of) peace (Russian)
<br>foundation (Irish)
<br>home (Norse)
<br>middle enclosure (Germanic)
<br>under the sun (Lithuanian)
<br>open space (Sanskrit)
<br>the great place (Cadhinor)
<br>the place of life (Cuezi)
<br>earth and sea (Cadhinor)
<br>all land (Kebreni)
<p>Of course, if you're making a conlang, it's fine to just make up a word
too. It's not very important which words are roots. Derive words from
other words where you can think of a derivation; where you can't, don't
worry about it.
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