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Help to Build Borg!
The Collective desires to make the Borg language a true tool of
communication. To this end, the Collective invites you make Borg your own and add
to the vocabulary of Borg. When devising new words, please keep these
principles in mind:
- Study the grammar and the existing lexicon for word-building principles.
- Make up a new root only as a last resort. Try these ideas first:
- make a new word from an existing root
- back-form a root from a rootless word and then use that.
- expand the meaning of an existing word.
- add infixes and/or prefixes to an existing word.
- make compounds from existing words
- use a descriptive phrase instead of a single new word
- If you make a new root, be sure that its CC pattern is not
already in use (be sure to check the affix and preposition lists!).
- New words should be in the spirit of the Borg and the Star Trek
universe.
Strive to make your newly coined words transparent to future
users (that is, clearly understandable from its parts). If a Borg
language community ever arises, this will go a long way toward ensuring
the mutual compatibility of new vocabulary.
© 1998, Terrence Donnelly
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