Well, I'm happy. I finally got un-lazy for long enough to finish the dictionary! I'm only a month late in publishing it, but you know what they say- better late than never! I won't provide a link here, since I'm not really trying to advertise it. If you go to lulu.com and search "kaponii ba sandi", it's there. Isn't that "ba" on the cover just awesome? I wrote it with water in sand one day when I went to the park. I love seeing "ba"s out in the wild, so to speak. :)
I'm just happy that I'll have a new edition of the dictionary finally! Things were so cramped in the old one, and I'm looking forward to free-range work again. I have to stop sometimes and think about just how fortunate I am to live in 2013, where ordering a printed version of my dictionary is literally as easy as clicking a few buttons on a screen.
I remember when I first started conlanging, that it would take hours and hours to re-copy the dictionary into a fresh book each time. And because I maintained two separate dictionaries for Sandic (one english-sandic, one sandic-english), of course there were inconsistencies between them.
Nowadays, I spend two days completely reformatting it at my leisure if I should so desire, plug the new words into a spreadsheet, auto-alphabetize (alphabetization was always my bane) and then I'm ready to go! So easy. I have no idea why I waited so long to do this!
Now to get cracking on that anthology!
(Oh, also. There is totally a link on the right-hand side, if you want to look at what the dictionary is like! :D It's a big pdf (like 200 pages), but everything is there. :) )
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