Re: Depressing vocabulary for mid-June

Sally Caves wrote:
> When I was living in Geneva, Switzerland in the eighties, everybody was
> concerned about "wind paralysis" (I forget the expression in French; maybe
> this will ring a bell for Christophe).  You had to close the windows on
> the
> train from Geneva to Lausanne because the wind could blow on your face and
> cause "paralysis."
Oh those French :-)))

> >  Here's just a few items I clipped
> > > from the taxonomy I've been working on.  This falls under
> > > "medicine"--hypochondriac that I am:
> >(snip)
> Well, that's only about a third of it.  But I also have long lists of body
> parts, family members, clothes, household items... the taxonomy has a lot
> of
> filling in left for it.
>
> Again, who published the taxonomy (on-line) needed for a basic vocabulary
> for any invented language?
>
Oh lord, now you've reminded me.  Last time we discussed taxonomies, Either
And or Padraic sent a big long one in an email some while back-- and of
course it got lost in my virus attack/purge a month ago.  However-- it ought
to be in the Yahoo and Listserv archives!!!!  All is well, all is well.  And
as I recall, you have/had quite an extensive list on your website.

PS Loved the polymathic self-description in your earlier post. If I were to
do a similar, everything would have to be prefaced with "former", "one-time
(literally)", "manqué"...