Jennifer Collins-Jai wrote:
> Not sure what kind of response I'll get from this but I'm just curious...
>
> I just finished copying out my whole lexicon into a hand-bound notebook.  I
> left
> space for future entries for each letter of course but... the entries will
> no longer
> be in alphabetical order once I add more words.  Does anyone else have
> paper
> copies of their lexicons?  If you do how do you keep it organized.  Or for
> those
> who don't have paper copies, how do you organize your lexicons in general?
The only complete copy of the ea-luna base vocabulary is in a paper 
notebook. It contains all the possible 1 and 2 syllable words, since 
ea-luna is simple enough to do that. Unfortunately, this means that the 
entries are in ea-luna syllabary order, and when I have no idea what a 
word is, I have to visually scan every page til I find it. I made the 
unfortunate mistake of keeping the list of compound words in a separate 
notebook which got lost. (I have since created a digital version of most 
of the lexicon, except for most of the words starting with g-, so I can 
search for vocabulary now.)

Mijador (or Myjador... it never quite got settled) had vocabulary stored 
in 2 steno books-- one Mijador-English, and the other English-Mijador. 
They were sorted by topic instead of alphabetical order. If I were doing 
that again, I would separate the topics by a couple of pages to allow 
for new additions to each section, and I'd leave 2 large sections for 
uncategorized verbs and nouns.

Teliya Nevashi has a spreadsheet lexicon. The most up-to-date version is 
always the raw version that I just add vocabulary to the end of, but 
then I sometimes, for my own use, will generate one in alphabetical 
order (by English or Nevashi). When I've known I was going to be without 
Internet for a while and needed a portable version, I've printed out the 
alphabetical list and put it in a binder, and also sent it to my Kindle 
as a PDF.

I was just thinking to myself that I really like my lexicon-by-topic, 
and I just realized I could do that with my next spreadsheet o' words by 
creating separate sheets by category.
> I have a doc that I add too, but I really wanted a portable screen-free
> copy, thus
> my notebook copy.  Alright. I will stop blabbing.  I'm just curious.
>
>
I have only started creating languages in digital form first over the 
last five years, for the sake of having something I can show people... 
but I have a strong preference for working  longhand on paper... What a 
dinosaur, eh?

Mia.