Re: Dictionary formats

Hi, Aidan

>    Just wondering:
>
>    Those of you with detailed dictionaries (are there any of you?), how do
> you list everything in your notes? Everyone here can't be making one-to-one
> wordlists. So how do you make comments indicating various usages,
> compounds, and so on?
>
The Gevey-English lexicon is a mysql database accessed through
a web browser. The list and search facilities are all controlled by
perlscripts. You can play with it at

   http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/lexicon.html

>    Do you do anything to make sure that you're not relexifying, e.g. use
> WordNet, or another language's dictionary?
>
Nothing in particular, but given that the language is part of a
conculture with quite a detailed history, biology, geography, etc
(mostly in my head at the moment), most new words go through a quality
control process before being added to the database.

Having some good solid rules for forming words from other words can
also help. Forinstance, what is the language trying to do when it
turns the object "cup" into an action?

>    Aidan
>
Rik

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