Re: Root creation

Matthew Kehrt wrote:

> I noticed on the thread about people's leastt favorite part of inventing
> a language, creating roots and vocab rank high.  Heres an idea.  The
> Model languages website has a list of all of the words in Basic
> English.  I downloaded it into Word, and converted into a new etymology,
> as well as a lexicon.
> Comments?
It's a good idea, and has been done, in Basic Baanzish for example,
which also included another good list; does anyone know where
Baanish has gone? I can't find it anymore.

Rick Harrison also has a basic wordlist project worth looking at.

I like the Kilgariff list, based on The greatest corpus of English.
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/bnc-readme.html

There's also Roget (Glosa was built from that), or WordNet ...