Add design file

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 # Flycheck
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design.org

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+#+title: ~org-conlang~ design
+#+author: Lucien Cartier-Tilet
+#+email: lucien@phundrak.com
+
+* Representing Dictionaries in org-mode
+The way I have always been writing dictionaries in org-mode was to
+write a list of words in a dedicated heading in their language’s
+dedicated file. But I believe this is not how it should be done.
+Instead, only one file should act as my database in which I will store
+as many words as needed.
+
+The location of the dictionary must be presented with
+
+* Word links
+An issue I was facing when working on the initial drafts of
+~org-conlang~ was how to link two words together. The answer:
+[[file:./ol-conlang.el][ol-conlang]]. Words can be first categorized by language, and then they
+can be stored individually. This would make URIs look something like
+~language/word~. This is necessary in case two languages both have a
+word spelled the same way, such as English and Mbabaram /dog/ --- which
+funnily enough both mean the same thing.
+
+To specify to org-mode these are custom links, they need to have a
+dedicated prefix, ~conlang~. To make it more cohesive, I decided to
+separate the name of the language and the word itself with a colon as
+well. Thus, the link towards the English word /dog/ is
+~[[conlang:english:dog]]~.