Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

Herman Miller wrote:
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> On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:23:54 +0000, Charles <catty@...> wrote:
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> >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.
What I'm looking for is the "metanyms", to avoid
a large-scale vocabulary; and I was primarily
referring to the European WordNet project,
which involves comparison of several languages.
Most word frequency lists are not so nicely
broken-down to allow separation of the more
grammatical/empty words from noun/verb roots,
hence my interest in this (WN) project.