Re: My own taxonomic listing
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 2:09 |
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From: "Amanda Babcock" <langs@...>
> Sally, I have Teonaht to thank for so much. Between the recent taxonomy
> thread and the influence of Relay 8, merechi is finally getting some
> attention.
Wow! I'm so glad! And And has provided us with Rick's taxonomy.
> So, for the first time in 13 years, I have an up-to-date wordlist! More
> niftily, it's tagged for easy text-bashing, and I wrote a script to
convert
> the alphabetized version to a grouped-by-topic version (I can't really say
> it's taxonomic as it has no hierarchy).
A thesaurus then?
http://mercury.quandary.org/~langs/merechi/merechi.classified.html
>
> The only drawback is the 600-some-odd line table, which loads really
slowly
> on Netscape. Oh well. I don't think HTML provides any other way to align
> columns!
Loaded pretty fast in Explorer. Of course, if you have DSL or Roadrunner,
loading should be no problem!
BTW, this looks really good. It seems that you have yet to put a number of
items in automatic groups, but good going! You put this up fast! I don't
have any such software.
> (Teonaht is eerily reminiscent of my own conlanging in a few ways: the
> early religious/magical focus and my embarrassment at some of my pompous
> teenage words that I nevertheless can't erase, for two of them.
Also the interest in the natural world. (By the way, which two words are
the long pompous ones you can't get rid of? I love my Erahenahil, which I
wouldn't get rid of EVER... but typenema to describe "yellow-green"--and
invented from scratch--is an embarrassment! Only later did I develop
the -ema ending which means "like"; so typen must be an object that is
"yellow green." Any suggestions? <G>
> But my
> merechi is a tiny corpus by comparison, less than a thousand words
including
> bound morphemes, and nearly devoid of conculture.)
It will grow. Interestingly, the "heaven cats" came first before I invented
a language for them!
Good going with this, Amanda! And thanks for sharing it!
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
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