Re: Meaning related to sound

Garrett wrote:

> I'd like some input on some things for malat. I'm thinking of making my
> vocabulary related slightly to the sound of the words.
> What do you think of this idea? And one more thing: should words of similar
> meaning (like words of possession) all be derived from each other, or
> should they be different at a certain point outward (in meaning)?
> Malat - http://www.metro.net/3jones/malat/
I am trying to make that idea work too; it resembles
Bantu word classes, would be mnemonic/intuitive,
alphabetizes by concept, and would be very cool.

I'm looking at various associational "systems"
such as Tarot and Kabbalism, Alchemy, etc.
So I suppose this system will also be able to
pick horses at Santa Anita (race track in LA).
This is in addition to Aristotle's metaphysics,
and modern propositional calculus. Fun!
I believe in Sapir-Whorf, so it does matter ...

Here are some semi-gratuitous new links:

Ariadne's beautiful artwork at
http://home.ici.net/~ariadne/illumtarot1.html

Black Shadow's philosophical Tarot at
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/bshadow/tarot/

And some old ones:

Margo's sound symbolism at
http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/

EuroWordNet Ontology:
http://www.let.uva.nl/~ewn/corebcs/topont.htm

Lexical Freenet etc:
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/lexfn/

Generalized Upper Model:
> http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/gen-um/newUM.html