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>>Matthew Kehrt wrote:
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>>> I noticed on the thread about people's leastt favorite part of inventing
>>> a language, creating roots and vocab rank high. Heres an idea. The
>>> Model languages website has a list of all of the words in Basic
>>> English. I downloaded it into Word, and converted into a new etymology,
>>> as well as a lexicon.
>>> Comments?
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>Many of the basic English words are used in a large body of idioms unique
to
>English. One would have to create new words not only for the basic English
>words, but also for each of common idioms that they are used in. A
>top-notch English dictionary will contain the most common idioms under one
>or more of the words used in that idiom. This would be a rather
>time-consuming chore--to make of list of both the basic English words _and_
>the common idioms that they are used in--but I wish someone would do it and
>make it public. I've toyed with the idea for a long time, but haven't had
>the time. Besides, I'll have to find a better English dictionary than any
I
>have now. One of the drawbacks of rarely needing a dictionary is that one
>tends to buy only the most basic models. Oh, well. ~alypius
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