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Re: Conlang fluency

From:Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
Date:Thursday, May 10, 2001, 2:05
WOW..
I'm in awe...

Jim Hopkins wrote:
> > Concerning fluency in Druni: > > I would have to say that I am "basically" fluent in Druni. By that I mean > that I speak it as well as I do French which is my second language. So, > although I do quite well without a grammar or lexicon I do ocassionally come > across words that I don't know and have to look up. > > At present Druni contains a vocabulary of approximately 9, 000 roots. If you > include words formed from agglutination that would increase to at least 10, > 000 words. I would say that I know approximately 6, 000 of them although I > have never scientically tested this assumption. > > Djáni, > Jim > > PS. I do a lot of talking to myself in Druni!