Re: Insults was (Re: Fw: translation needed)

Don Blaheta wrote:

> > The problem with most word lists is that they are too basic.
> > I have played a bit with the WordNet 99999 "synsets".
> Isn't this _exactly_ what Mark Line did to get the lexicon for Classical
> Yiklamu?  (Whatever happened to Mark, anyway?)
http://www36.pair.com/waldzell/mpl/yiklamu/index.html

I installed WordNet and wrote scripts to web-ify it,
so it acts as a sort of nice online dictionary/thesaurus.
There isn't much hint of word frequency, though. For that:

http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/bnc-readme.html

So, I use one for frequency and the other for definitions and semantic
links. One can be more systematic than with a few random word lists.
Whatever its faults, English has lots of words to pick from ...