Re: Basic lexicon

Siyo!
If you're hard up, a standby is Basic English, this
850-word list some guy came up with whose last name
begins with an O.  (Okay, guys, pelt me with something
for forgetting his name.)  He had some bizarre ideas
on language though, and for its brevity, it has some
pretty complex terms, like "computer" and "camera".
(For some reason, I can remember this...)

I came across a great 1400-word list on some site for
which I can't remember the URL.  This guy had kind of
taken 5 different lists and compiled them.  I copied
the list onto a Word file, but it gave me a word for
each line, so the document started out over 50 pages
long before I started doing some heavy-duty deleting
of excess space and undesired words.  If someone knows
where this is, please speak up!  I will ultimately
want to give them some credit, myself, and this may
help our comrade in trouble.

Amesohaleka Yawehi (I finally came up with a general
farewell!  It literally means, "Go with God", just
like "Vaya con Dios".)

Kalinida Hitsakisoni Makeli
Clint Jackson Baker

--- The RipperDoc <ripperdoc@...> wrote:
> Hello!
> Do you have any links to some lexicon that holds all
> basic, human words,
> like eat, walk, etc? Not just a lexicon of roots,
> but a lexicon of the most
> basic words of humankind. It would be very useful
> for my conlang, so I could
> compare the lexicons.
>
> /Martin

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