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Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Sunday, October 11, 1998, 0:57
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:23:54 +0000, Charles <catty@...> wrote:

>What I'd like would be a sort of ontological >tree as in WordNet, grouping the near-infinite >nouns into a tree of sub-categories, a taxonomy. >The higher-level words would be the essentials >of a "reasonable" vocabulary. Maybe just 2000 >or so well-chosen words is enough? Anyway, >it would be a good list to re-lex from.
I think it's too early for mass vocabulary-generation. Starting small is = a good idea. I'd like to avoid relexing, especially from English.