Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth

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Khemehekis wrote: Great job! And it doesn't sound like a wild guess to me, but rather an extrapolation.
thanx I take this as an encouragement
Khemehekis wrote: Idioms are one of the most fun-providing parts!
Yeah right. And you can dream away on it very nicely. BTW, I'm continuously looking for some good proverbs. I have created some, but I find them still quite straightforward and rather predictable: more inspiration is more than welcome
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Yagia1 wrote:Yeah right. And you can dream away on it very nicely. BTW, I'm continuously looking for some good proverbs. I have created some, but I find them still quite straightforward and rather predictable: more inspiration is more than welcome
Of course they'll seem straightforward and predictable if you overthink them. The point of a proverb is to be poetic, yet instantly click inside your mind.

I didn't invent this one, but here's an example "If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."
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"Shh it's a secret (language)" just reached 200 words. Celebration time.
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Reviving to say that I've passed 700 in Aentoui! Gonna work for hitting 1000 so I can retire it semi-fully (:P) and work in earnest on a new one.

(And I've hit 15 in Yaizmoan! :P)

(And while I'm doing general shout-outs, I finished my conscript font! The first one I've done that's not only legible at, but also looks great when set to size 11.)
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Amjati now has 135 words.
It's growing up so fast! :-)
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Conlang ? is at 120 words!
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Yagia1 wrote:
Khemehekis wrote: Idioms are one of the most fun-providing parts!
Yeah right. And you can dream away on it very nicely. BTW, I'm continuously looking for some good proverbs. I have created some, but I find them still quite straightforward and rather predictable: more inspiration is more than welcome
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Conlang milestones are cool.

Congrats to anyone whose conlang is over 2000 words! I remember that day!

Extra congrats to anyone who conlang is over 10,000 words! You have my respect!
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OK, bragging time!

On April 2, 2011, my Kankonian dictionary reached 25,000 words.

Word #25,000 was "inmeho", meaning fanfic. It is short for "ineyis mehosai", from ineyis, fiction, me-, non-, and hosai, official.

Kankonian is now only a little smaller in lexicon size than Spocanian, which is described in Wikipedia as having "more than 25,000 words".

And it's still not finished. There are still all those words for plants, animals, foods, clothes, games, places, ethnic groups, religions and calendar terms of the many peoples of the Lehola Galaxy to add to my dictionary. Plus many culture-neutral concepts that I may still be missing.

I celebrated by eating a Russell Stover raspberry cream Easter egg. How would you celebrate when your conlanging reached a major milestone?
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Picking out my tombstone. What with my frequent project switching.
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My dictionary has exactly 138 Words :)
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On July 2, Kankonian's dictionary reached 26,000 entries.

The 26,000th word was not a word as such, but an idiomatic phrase: "guos na vadudu ad spir", meaning snowball's chance in Hell (literally, a mole's chance at flight).

What is the significance of 26,000? Well, the Spocanian language is said to have "more than 25,000 entries", meaning there are somewhere between 25,001 and 25,999. By reaching 26,000, Kankonian now has more words than Spocanian.

This may be the largest dictionary for any a priori artlang. Talossan's dictionary (which is available in print form, BTW -- very cool!) has over 30,000 entries, but Talossan is a posteriori (it's a Romance language, albeit with irregular derivations rather than a consistent set of rules for deriving from Latin). I'm not sure what the largest vocabulary for an artlang, is, although you seldom hear about a priori languages reaching more than 15,000 words. (Arka, a Japanese artlang, comes close, with over 14,000).

I think I'll celebrate by throwing a firework. (Baby, you're a firework, come on, let your colors burst . . .)
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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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My lexicon has passed 10 words! It's amazing, really.
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Khemehekis wrote:On July 2, Kankonian's dictionary reached 26,000 entries.

The 26,000th word was not a word as such, but an idiomatic phrase: "guos na vadudu ad spir", meaning snowball's chance in Hell (literally, a mole's chance at flight).

What is the significance of 26,000? Well, the Spocanian language is said to have "more than 25,000 entries", meaning there are somewhere between 25,001 and 25,999. By reaching 26,000, Kankonian now has more words than Spocanian.

This may be the largest dictionary for any a priori artlang. Talossan's dictionary (which is available in print form, BTW -- very cool!) has over 30,000 entries, but Talossan is a posteriori (it's a Romance language, albeit with irregular derivations rather than a consistent set of rules for deriving from Latin). I'm not sure what the largest vocabulary for an artlang, is, although you seldom hear about a priori languages reaching more than 15,000 words. (Arka, a Japanese artlang, comes close, with over 14,000).

I think I'll celebrate by throwing a firework. (Baby, you're a firework, come on, let your colors burst . . .)
How do you get so many words?
Are you sitting at home and think about new words? ;-)
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I just started working on the official PDL dictionary.

30 100 words so far.
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I don't bother with counting, but I guess my conlang's lexicon has about 300 roots.
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Just hit 500 with the word renedíl, meaning belief.
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Is it just me or is this thread a lot like comparing penis sizes?
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MrKrov wrote:Picking out my tombstone. What with my frequent project switching.
Show the project switching milestones - 20, 50, 100 abandoned scraps.
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Milyamd wrote:
MrKrov wrote:Picking out my tombstone. What with my frequent project switching.
Show the project switching milestones - 20, 50, 100 abandoned scraps.
Or count the number of words you've created in ALL your scrapped languages combined.
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