Re: Weekly Vocab 9

Well, I'm tired now/It's time for dinner.  But I went
through two notebooks and found about 40 words that
hadn't been entered in the dictionary and entered
them.  So now the C-E side has 901 entries.  The poor
E-C side hasn't been updated for two weeks.

Adam the hongry

--- Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> wrote:
> Adam Walker wrote:
>
> >Wow.  Carrajena is up to 862 entries in the online
> >dictionary but there's at least a good
> double-handful
> >of words that haven't been entered yet.  I'll set
> to
> >work on that now.  (Of course the English-Carrajena
> >side of the dictionary is only about 2/3 that size
> and
> >*baaaadly* in need of updating.)
>
> Here's what you do: every time you add one word,
> coin like two or three
> other related words from the same root OR other
> words/roots with
> complementary or opposite meanings to that one word.
> Not only does it build
> the lexicon faster, but I find I can consider a new
> word more "legitimate"
> if it has like two or three relatives in there with
> it.
>
> >Adam who loves creating the lexicon and hates
> working
> >on syntax
>
> Mike who loves syntax. A lot.