Re: Organization of materials

Dear all,
A couple of questions: what's obnoxious about arranging vocabulary in
alphabetical order? This isn't a rhetorical question - I just don't know
what anyone sees wrong with it. If you want the ability to list both in
English and/or your conlang alphabetical order, why not use a bit of
JavaScript? I suppose how you list depends upon how you want to use it
(nouns by subject, i.e., animals, natural objects, etc.) but providing you
arrange your categories to account for all possibilities, using JS you
should be able to have a nice interactive vocabulary - i.e., a program to
list just verbs, nouns, adjectives beginning with 't' or whatever. Good
luck.

Mike Poxon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: Organization of materials


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 12:18 AM
> Subject: Organization of materials
>
>
> > One of the impediments to my doing more conlanging is a lack of a good
> > method for organization of materials.  I usually use web pages which I
> > list my vocabulary on in alphabetical order, but this is cumbersome and
> > obnoxious.  Does anyone have a method that doesn't suck for organization
> > of vocabulary?  Something easily importable into web documents, for
> > example?
> >
> > --Pat
>
> I'm just as clueless.  I think you need an organized brain more than
> anything, and that I don't have.  I've heard people talking about
> databases for generating vocabulary, but since so much of T.
> is already generated, and much of it original or rootless, that won't
> work.  It's a matter of going through my old records and ploddingly
> adding the most common words.   I seem to love to add the most
> uncommon words to "teoeng.html," rather than the root ones.
>
> Sally
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                 Living your life is a task so difficult,
> >                 it has never been attempted before.
> >

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