Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth

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Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:47 Well, it happened. I tweaked somigos (introspection) to create soumoigz, a verb meaning "to introspect".

Kankonian is now at 100,000 words! Tied with Mmavvii! Woo-hoo!
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Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:47 Well, it happened. I tweaked somigos (introspection) to create soumoigz, a verb meaning "to introspect".

Kankonian is now at 100,000 words! Tied with Mmavvii! Woo-hoo!
Congratulations! sumurayo':

That is such an auspicious number! Nine out of ten Hindu mystics agree: if you reach one hundred thousand, you will have good lakh.
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Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:53Kankonian is now officially #1.

At 8:49 p.m., I added the word bakotzios, meaning "intrusiveness", to Kankonian. It wasn't a remarkable word; just the abstract noun suffix -os added onto the adjective bakotzi (intrusive).

With this, Kankonian surpasses Mmavvii's 100,000 to become the largest-lexiconed conlang known to Man.

100,001 words! [<3]

A special thank-you to Arayaz for cheering me on, and everyone else who watched me on Kankonian's 28-year journey to achieving the world's largest conlang lexicon.
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Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:53 Kankonian is now officially #1.
Congratulations, Khemehekis! Apologies I missed the fun; kudos on making your conlang officially #1, now above that other thing.
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Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:53 Kankonian is now officially #1.

At 8:49 p.m., I added the word bakotzios, meaning "intrusiveness", to Kankonian. It wasn't a remarkable word; just the abstract noun suffix -os added onto the adjective bakotzi (intrusive).

With this, Kankonian surpasses Mmavvii's 100,000 to become the largest-lexiconed conlang known to Man.

100,001 words! [<3]

A special thank-you to Arayaz for cheering me on, and everyone else who watched me on Kankonian's 28-year journey to achieving the world's largest conlang lexicon.
This is a huge moment in conlanging history and I'm so happy I got to witness it firsthand! You are an inspiration to us all, Khemehekis!
I wish I saw this happen live, but unfortunately I had homework and sleeping to do [:(]. This is still super exciting!
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Arayaz wrote: 02 Sep 2024 14:02 Congratsssssss!
WeepingElf wrote: 02 Sep 2024 11:05 Congratulations!
VaptuantaDoi wrote: 02 Sep 2024 10:24 Congrats! What's your next goal?
Thanks, guys!

My next goal? Probably to finish the IGCE list (I'm currently in the I's).
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lurker wrote: 02 Sep 2024 21:41
👍

That's cool.
prettydragoon wrote: 02 Sep 2024 23:28 Congratulations! sumurayo':

That is such an auspicious number! Nine out of ten Hindu mystics agree: if you reach one hundred thousand, you will have good lakh.
Thanks, guys! And prettydragoon -- that's a great line! I'm going to put that up at the Famous Quotes thread.
Man in Space wrote: 03 Sep 2024 00:28 AW[snip]W YEA[snip]AH![snip]!
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Keenir wrote: 03 Sep 2024 01:37
Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:53 Kankonian is now officially #1.
Congratulations, Khemehekis! Apologies I missed the fun; kudos on making your conlang officially #1, now above that other thing.
Apology accepted.

I like "that other thing". That's like Biden calling Trump "the former guy".
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_Just_A_Sketch wrote: 03 Sep 2024 19:00
Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:53 Kankonian is now officially #1.

At 8:49 p.m., I added the word bakotzios, meaning "intrusiveness", to Kankonian. It wasn't a remarkable word; just the abstract noun suffix -os added onto the adjective bakotzi (intrusive).

With this, Kankonian surpasses Mmavvii's 100,000 to become the largest-lexiconed conlang known to Man.

100,001 words! [<3]

A special thank-you to Arayaz for cheering me on, and everyone else who watched me on Kankonian's 28-year journey to achieving the world's largest conlang lexicon.
This is a huge moment in conlanging history and I'm so happy I got to witness it firsthand! You are an inspiration to us all, Khemehekis!
I wish I saw this happen live, but unfortunately I had homework and sleeping to do [:(]. This is still super exciting!
"A huge moment in conlanging history" -- great way to put it! Your words bring tears to my eyes.
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Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:53 Kankonian is now officially #1.

At 8:49 p.m., I added the word bakotzios, meaning "intrusiveness", to Kankonian. It wasn't a remarkable word; just the abstract noun suffix -os added onto the adjective bakotzi (intrusive).

With this, Kankonian surpasses Mmavvii's 100,000 to become the largest-lexiconed conlang known to Man.

100,001 words! [<3]

A special thank-you to Arayaz for cheering me on, and everyone else who watched me on Kankonian's 28-year journey to achieving the world's largest conlang lexicon.
I'm so angry at myself for missing a historical moment for the CBB and the conlanging community as a whole... Congrats Khemehekis! Your dedication to Kankonian is insane, in a good way.
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Flavia wrote: 05 Sep 2024 17:28
Khemehekis wrote: 02 Sep 2024 05:53 Kankonian is now officially #1.

At 8:49 p.m., I added the word bakotzios, meaning "intrusiveness", to Kankonian. It wasn't a remarkable word; just the abstract noun suffix -os added onto the adjective bakotzi (intrusive).

With this, Kankonian surpasses Mmavvii's 100,000 to become the largest-lexiconed conlang known to Man.

100,001 words! [<3]

A special thank-you to Arayaz for cheering me on, and everyone else who watched me on Kankonian's 28-year journey to achieving the world's largest conlang lexicon.
I'm so angry at myself for missing a historical moment for the CBB and the conlanging community as a whole... Congrats Khemehekis! Your dedication to Kankonian is insane, in a good way.
You missed it? That's too bad. And I love the quote "Your dedication to Kankonian is insane, in a good way".
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Man in Space wrote: 11 Sep 2024 00:27 Image
Wow, so you made that? Looks like an old video game!
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Khemehekis wrote: 11 Sep 2024 02:25Wow, so you made that? Looks like an old video game!
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Man in Space wrote: 11 Sep 2024 06:25
Khemehekis wrote: 11 Sep 2024 02:25Wow, so you made that? Looks like an old video game!
Enjoy.
That's very spiff! Thanks for the link!

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Just out of curiosity, how many natlangs even don't have a recorded dictionary of more than 100,000 entries? I assume there are many languages of smaller groups where nobody ever compiled a dictionary of that size.
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Iyionaku wrote: 11 Sep 2024 10:40 Just out of curiosity, how many natlangs even don't have a recorded dictionary of more than 100,000 entries? I assume there are many languages of smaller groups where nobody ever compiled a dictionary of that size.
Well, apparently, Hawaiian has only 43,015 words.

https://www.trussel2.com/HAW/haw-a.htm
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elemtilas wrote: 11 Sep 2024 08:05
Man in Space wrote: 11 Sep 2024 06:25
Khemehekis wrote: 11 Sep 2024 02:25Wow, so you made that? Looks like an old video game!
Enjoy.
That's very spiff! Thanks for the link!

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Elemtilas! Now you can update this list: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4725
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Khemehekis wrote: 11 Sep 2024 13:14 Elemtilas! Now you can update this list: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4725
Happily done!

Next update when you reach one crore!

Unless you can find a similarly cool number in some other system! [;)]
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elemtilas wrote: 12 Sep 2024 06:56
Khemehekis wrote: 11 Sep 2024 13:14 Elemtilas! Now you can update this list: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4725
Happily done!
Yayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next update when you reach one crore!

Unless you can find a similarly cool number in some other system!
Now, let's not skip over a million!
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