Sheets, Jeff wrote:
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> > From:         Keenan[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Reply To:     Constructed Languages List
> > Sent:         Thursday, November 19, 1998 7:42 PM
> > To:   Multiple recipients of list CONLANG
> > Subject:      CHAT: Succumbing to the conlang bug
> >
> > Uddhyxto!
> >
> > Alright it's happened. Despite all my good intentions to finish my
> > conlang, Ok, before starting anything else. After ten years of success
> > at this.I have fallen. I have begun a new one.
> >
> > I thought, what if I did a lang with nothing but my favorite sounds?
> > >From there the snowball started rolling. I went out and got myself
> > two
> > new notebooks. (Duke is still in the stoneage and does all his
> > conlangs
> > on paper). I slapped the phonology together last night and, now I've
> > got
> > 1400 words ready and waiting for encodings. I blame all you people. :D
> >
> 1400 in a single night?!?!?!  That bug ripped off your leg, Duke, he
> didn't just bite! :)
>
> > The thing is, this new ,as yet unnamed language, has so much more
> > appeal
> > to me.
> > It must be the newness of it. Has this happened to anyone else? I know
> > most of us have multiple languages. Has anyone else been seduced away
> > from comfortable on-going projects by a new shiny idea?
> >
> All the time.  I'm currently keeping with Tit'xka, and have a script
> working for it, but need to finish some translations.  Then, maybe will
> I put it on the web.
>
> > I still have so much to do on Ok and _have_ done so much to it. It
> > seems
> > a shame for this to happen.
> >
> Why a shame?  Keep all your data on Ok, and a while from now, you'll
> look at it, and think about working on it again, and then the bug'll rip
> off your other leg. :)
>
> > Xto (Respectful regard)
> > -Duke
> >
> > "Dhaetaemxk amkust"..... "A borrowed saw cuts anything"  Another Irish
> > proverb.
> >
> > http//:web.syr.edu/~makeenan/ocpage.html
> >
Sheets, Jeff wrote

> 1400 in a single night?!?!?!  That bug ripped off your leg, Duke, he
> didn't just bite! :)

LOL!!

I know. I seem to always work on my langs like that. Certain jobs in the
making languages I hurry through as quickly as possible. Vocabulary
building is one of them.
First I decide what will be allowed. Then I can put words together
fairly quickly using a logical system.

I'm impatient to get to the good stuff, which is, the grammar and seeing
how translations turn out

> Why a shame?  Keep all your data on Ok, and a while from now, you'll
> look at it, and think about working on it again, and then the bug'll rip
> off your other leg. :)

Well, I'll do that of course. :) Its a shame because I have certain
goals I want to achieve concerning Ok. The main goal is to finish it. I
guess that's unusual for a conlanger. Actually having a completed
conlang (This time) was one of the objectives before I ever put pen to
paper to start Ok. With my next lang I won't care. I just wanted to
finish at least _one_.

At the rate I'm progressing I estimate Ok will have a complete
vocabulary of radicals in five years.I should have a vocabulary of
usefull words (The words are made out of the radicals) shortly
thereafter.


> > -Duke
> >
> > "Dhaetaemxk amkust"..... "A borrowed saw cuts anything"  Another Irish
> > proverb.
> >
> > http://web.syr.edu/~makeenan/ocpage.html
> >