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That seems safest...
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Wusses all around.
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MrKrov wrote:Wusses all around.
Even if I did want to know, I wouldn't want to know from Micamo. My mental image of her wouldn't survive it.
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MrKrov wrote:Wusses all around.
Cowards live longer. ;)
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I reached over a thousand lexical entries.
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Lodhas wrote:
MrKrov wrote:Wusses all around.
Cowards live longer. [;)]
According to Shakespeare it only seems longer.
Spoiler:
in [i]Julius Caesar[/i], Shakespeare wrote:Caesar:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
Julius Caesar (II, ii, 32-37)
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eldin raigmore wrote:According to Shakespeare it only seems longer.
Spoiler:
in [i]Julius Caesar[/i], Shakespeare wrote:Caesar:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
Julius Caesar (II, ii, 32-37)
Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth would agree:
"A coward thinks he'll always live
If he keeps himself from strife;
Old age leaves no rest and peace
Though spears may spare his life."
-excerpt from Live Without Regrets, album: Surtur Rising
That said, I'm not a warrior nor part of a warrior culture as the characters in Shakespear's play or Johan's songs tend to be. :p
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2000th word in Wa‘tē:

kilālu
[kiˈl̪aːl̪]
"public servant"
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30,000 words!

Yesterday my Kankonian dictionary reached its 30,000-word mark.

The thirty thousandth word was "hozos na thashe", meaning box jelly. The word literally translates as "cube of poison".

I ate a Russell Stover coconut cream Easter egg to celebrate. It was scrumdiddlyumptious (though not made by Willy Wonka -- my housemate Carl tells me all Willy Wonka candies are evil, as they make the candy out of children and then turn said children's parents into Oompa-loompas).
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Squirrels chase koi . . . chase squirrels

My Kankonian-English dictionary: 86,336 words and counting

31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!
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2400 words in my Wateu wordlist.

latest word added: leapare - 'shoe lace'
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1 word!

I recently wiped my online dictionary clean, so I decided to start by adding the first word again, and I added the word meaning 'new', to begin with, of course!
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xingoxa wrote:2400 words in my Wateu wordlist.

latest word added: leapare - 'shoe lace'
Wateu? Not Wa‘tē anymore?

Congratulations on the milestone though. It's a great language, so I'm glad you're sticking with it.
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The only conlang I ever had that got past 100 words was Demonos, which got to about 200-400 (can't remember).

However, Demonos' heavy derivation kind of made this cheating.
Nūdenku waga honji ma naku honyasi ne ika-ika ichamase!
female-appearance=despite boy-voice=PAT hold boy-youth=TOP very be.cute-3PL
Honyasi zō honyasi ma naidasu.
boy-youth=AGT boy-youth=PAT love.romantically-3S
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I almost never get to lexicons. [:'(]
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Wateu? Not Wa‘tē anymore?
Slight change in the orthography.
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Chagen wrote:The only conlang I ever had that got past 100 words was Demonos, which got to about 200-400 (can't remember).

However, Demonos' heavy derivation kind of made this cheating.
Scrapper, Chagen?
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Ilian currently stands at about 310 root words, not counting numbers and things produced through agglutination.

I've not the foggiest idea about Telèmor. I should probably count at some point.
And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise;
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thigh...

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I have actually begun vocabbing for Mhmmz, right now I have around 50 words [:D] (Including derivations and numerals)

One word i like is the word for "owl": qlqj [ʔɴ̩́ʔɴ̩̂]
It's onomatopoetic
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Evelēranēl, my first real conlang and, despite its n00blang tendencies, a personal favorite, has upwards of 1500 words - my lexicon also counts idioms and loanwords, so the number isn't definite. It's 1000th word was ēšoka, 'the act of being sorry'.

Genljøŋ, my agglutinative pet project that was spawned from a list of Old English conjugations of 'to be' (but no longer has 'to be'), has just less than 500. It's 100th, if I recall, was þbjü, 'fox'.

Pa Ko Tseng Fe Cun, the remake of my first 'conlang' *coughutterfailurecough* has a maximum of 433 morphemes, and... 4*433 words. Only about 150 or so are actually assigned yet, however.

HyPry (C Cou Proıdounıœmæ Lègælıefra), a case-overdosed, state-declining jumble of tones and diphthongs, has (according to Lexique Pro) exactly 760 words. This is inaccurate, as I have a few hundred that I haven't bothered putting into the lexicon yet, so we'll say about 1000.

Sśesháza has... let me count... sixteen words.

Bų́ép'û̀dsếvề, which is a vowel-shifting mess I hate with a passion but can't bring myself to scrap, has about a dozen.

Most of the others don't even have vocabulary. Tptpd likely never will. Same with óó'ú. And Drakkailak. Syelticclicscue has a rather large vocabulary but not a mite of grammar. [:(]
Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.

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Actually, now that I'm counting, Maxédri just hit its 500th word; it being:
yetetrimir [adv] pretentiously
:nld: :eng: :hun: :fra: :deu:
:con: Maxédri
:con: Faljüdax
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