Re: Poll: Basic vocabulary test of an IAL
From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
Date: | Saturday, August 24, 2002, 17:21 |
IMHO, to me, this is strikingly similar in some many ways to Penta/Zengo,
Dublex, Ludeiro (sp?), to my own CreoLego and to other similar "playful"
con/auxlangs...
>> 1. arboro - tree
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>> 2. avio - bird
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>> 3. akua - water
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>> 4. beber - drink
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>> 5. ben - "good" = yang principle (male, positive/"good", white/light,
aggressive, etc.)
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>> 6. blanki - blanket, hehe... ok, white
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>> 7. boni - pretty
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>> 8. chadi - hole punched in paper *snarllfle!*
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>> 9. choko - full, overflowing; choke
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>> 10. dento - tooth/teeth; to nibble
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>> 11. diter - speak
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>> 12. ekino - movement
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>> 13. elfano - elephant
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>> 14. fema - woman
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>> 15. fogo - fog; confusion
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>> 16. fridi - cold; refridgator
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>> 17. fuli - lightning
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>> 18. fumo - smoke
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>> 19. gol - goal
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>> 20. grandi - great
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>> 21. idea - idea
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>> 22. idioma - idiom; slang
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>> 23. indi - Indo-
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>> 24. jako - jacket
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>> 25. jorno - day; journal
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>> 26. kana - ability; capability
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>> 27. kapito - capital
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>> 28. kata - cat
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>> 29. kibo - kibble; snack
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>> 30. koner - coin
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>> 31. korno - corn
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>> 32. kuna - coffee
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>> 33. largi - large/wide; _largo_
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>> 34. libero - free(dom)
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>> 35. lingua - language; tongue
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>> 36. luna - moon
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>> 37. manjer - [to] eat; food
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>> 38. mano - hand/fist
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>> 39. monto - mountain; to climb
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>> 40. morter - death; to die
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>> 41. negi - to negate, to say no
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>> 42. nokto - night
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>> 43. novi - nova/novas
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>> 44. oksiter- to see, to observe
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>> 45. orsa - bear
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>> 46. pedo - foot
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>> 47. petro - stone, rock
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>> 48. pikoli - a little kid/child
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>> 49. pisco - fish
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>> 50. pluvia - rain
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>> 51. preti - pretty
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>> 52. quarko - four; quark; quarkie ;)
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>> 53. rondi - round; _rondo_
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>> 54. rosi - pink
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>> 55. saper - to know, to understand, _saavy_
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>> 56. siter - to sit/site
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>> 57. sol - sun
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>> 58. tela - away from but not distant
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>> 59. telo - distant
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>> 60. tino - metallic; tinny
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>> 61. uni - one
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>> 62. uso - use
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>> 63. verdi - green
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>> 64. vider - to see
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>> 65. viro - man
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>> 66. voler - to fly
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>> 67. watt - watt
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>> 68. yanki - someone from the USA
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>> 69. zebra - largish striped herbivorous quadruped; stripe(s)
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>> 70. Chlewey - the esteemed Carlos Thompson
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>> 71. dij Schdzjarvk - ?
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>> 72. atenter - to wait; to be attentive, at attention
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>> 73. broma - broom (?)
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>> 74. cali - beautiful
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>> 75. doter - to love affectionately; spoil
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>> 76. emino - eminent; honourable
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>> 77. fabuli - fabulous
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>> 78. gruta - cereal
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>> 79. helada - ice cream, _gelato_
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>> 80. imeilo - honey
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>> 81. justa - right, just, precise, accurate
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>> 82. kilo - kilo
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>> 83. lando - land; country/nation-state
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>> 84. mika - microphone; amplification
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>> 85. nu - now/new
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>> 86. oper - work; operate
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>> 87. parto - part; partition
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>> 88. quid - "what?"
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>> 89. rolo - wheel; roll; role/useage
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>> 90. sapo - damage/sabotage
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>> 91. turo - turbo (?)/tour
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>> 92. uro - urine
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>> 93. valer - well/strong
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>> 94. wiski - whisk(e)y
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>> 95. xero - copy
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>> 96. yrida - ???
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>> 97. zambo - a zombie-like, mutant form of dance based on the samba (?)
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Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist ;)
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
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poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.
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"La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
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