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Re: Arthaey: Laadan (was Survey)

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 12:04
Emaelivpa Amanda Babcock:
>> OT: A while back there was a discussion on whether Laadan's emotion-words >> covered concepts that English didn't. Where is this original list of >> words? The Cresaeans are telepathic, so I need a list of emotion-words. > >You can find it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/82326 or >http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/nativetongue/laadansampler.html >[snip] Basically, it's a system of productive derivation of words, which >in the end may be more helpful than any bare list of words could be.
Thank you for the links! You're right; derivations are a much better, more productive way of tackling the issue. Of course, I'll probably still want to lexicalize more common/important words... -- AA