Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth

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tev wrote: How do you get so many words?
Are you sitting at home and think about new words? ;-)
Well, it sort of works this way . . . once I realize my dictionary doesn't have a word for "astrolabe", I can't rest until my dictionary has a word for "astrolabe".
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Oh! Forgot to change my signature! Better fix that!
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my dictionary has 160 entries now ;-)
Sanareĥo hama ya sanoya.("live the moment")

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translateable :lat:
learning :fin:
my conlang: :con: Vanaya
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I have found that the best way to really get new words is by closely translating parts of novels and the like. Also I use a Italian-Dutch phrasebook which I once found in the local library, with over 3000 colloquial expressions. I fear this library phrasebook has only one reader (me) - most of the time it is on my desk and not on the library shelf. It works fine for me.
I continue working on my dictionary, several times each week. It is a two-way dictionary Dutch-Vayardese and the Vayardese entries number up to about 7.800 words (guess)
conlang: Vayardyio.
Affacite iago Vayardyio fidigou dicronésara !

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I should also have a two way dictionary, but im afraid of the work ;-)
because i have just Vanaya-German at the moment.
Sanareĥo hama ya sanoya.("live the moment")

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tev wrote:I should also have a two way dictionary, but im afraid of the work ;-)
Yeah, its tedious and tiresome at times, but rewarding. Once you have a two-way dictionary you can check and double-check your own work so much better. :-P
conlang: Vayardyio.
Affacite iago Vayardyio fidigou dicronésara !

native: :nld: fluent: :eng: :fra: :deu: can read: :ita: :esp:
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Hapoish reached its 2,000th word with "ihito" (be supposed to). That makes my third language to reach the 2,000 mark.
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roninbodhisattva wrote:Is it just me or is this thread a lot like comparing penis sizes?
Not just you.
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roninbodhisattva wrote:Is it just me or is this thread a lot like comparing penis sizes?
A little bit. But this thread is better, because girls can partake too.
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xingoxa wrote:
roninbodhisattva wrote:Is it just me or is this thread a lot like comparing penis sizes?
A little bit. But this thread is better, because girls can partake too.
What are you saying? That girls don't compare penis sizes? So all those movies are wrong?
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eldin raigmore wrote:
xingoxa wrote:
roninbodhisattva wrote:Is it just me or is this thread a lot like comparing penis sizes?
A little bit. But this thread is better, because girls can partake too.
What are you saying? That girls don't compare penis sizes? So all those movies are wrong?
Unfortunately, yes, we do.
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According to the PCP2.0 (Phallic Comparison Primer, 2nd edition):

1. All matters could — however arbitrarily — be viewed as phallic in nature, as soon as a discourse enters comparative mode (as described in section 2.1.1).
2. In order to more accurately evaluate the size of each penis, a conversion table (pages 69-77) from X ➔ plu (penile length unit) may be employed.
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Could girls compare their, erm, depths?
:oops:
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Yagia1 wrote:
tev wrote:I should also have a two way dictionary, but im afraid of the work ;-)
Yeah, its tedious and tiresome at times, but rewarding. Once you have a two-way dictionary you can check and double-check your own work so much better. :-P
Would not using the 'ctrl+f' function on Wordpad for a one-way dictionary not suffice? :P
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I guess by the standards of this board, then, I'm the John Holmes type freak.
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Milyamd wrote:Could girls compare their, erm, depths?
:oops:
What would be the point? Nobody's going to put anything in that's as big as what will come out if nature takes its course.
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Lodhas wrote:
Yagia1 wrote:
tev wrote:I should also have a two way dictionary, but im afraid of the work ;-)
Yeah, its tedious and tiresome at times, but rewarding. Once you have a two-way dictionary you can check and double-check your own work so much better. :-P
Would not using the 'ctrl+f' function on Wordpad for a one-way dictionary not suffice? :P
http://cd.langwiki.info/ - that's an useful tool that creates two-way dictionary at once.
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I'm also working on a two-way dictionary on Lurioneski in Word. I want to be able to print it out and take it with me, so there are a lot of 'see' tags. It's a bit of a hassle useing hidden text, bolding and unbolding, etc, but I'm making steady progress each time I work on it (which isn't often).

At the moment, I've done 330 lemmas from my original file (out of 920), resulting in around 400 items Lur-to-Eng and 490 items Eng-to-Lur.
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eldin raigmore wrote:What would be the point? Nobody's going to put anything in that's as big as what will come out if nature takes its course.
You'd... be surprised...
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Micamo wrote:
eldin raigmore wrote:What would be the point? Nobody's going to put anything in that's as big as what will come out if nature takes its course.
You'd... be surprised...
I have decided I don't want to know.
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