Re: Lexicon counting (was: Weekly Vocab #1.1.1...)

> Feaelin Moilar <feaelin@...> wrote:
>
> I've occasionally wondered and only now been motivated to ask, when
> one counts the entries, what do you count?
I have a Word file that I have named the root lexicon.  This contains
all the basic roots presently available in Senjecas, including bound
morphemes.  The current number is about 1,965.  I say "about" because
I have still to reconcile this Word file with the Wiki.frath file.

Then I have the Word file dictionary which contains all these roots
and the compounds made with them.  There are currently well over
15,000 words.  E.g., the entry under "du," two, contains 42 compounds.

I was recently on a geography kick & began to create names of oceans,
rivers, countries, etc., on the planet.  I removed those entries from
the dictionary & made a specialized dictionary for them.

I am going to do the same thing in the near future with zoology &
botany words.  This will considerably shorten the dictionary & enable
me to locate these specialized words more quickly.

Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/senjecas