Re: Thoughts on Word building
| From: | Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 4, 2005, 2:57 |
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On 12/3/05, Aaron Grahn <aaron@...> wrote:
> I think that Roget's Thesaurus, the old one, before they started doing
> the "dictionary style" thesauri, contains a good list of about 1000
> concepts. A language that has a word for each Roget category would be
> able to say most things, and would make a fine parent for a language
> family. At least so goes my thinking.
>
Also, the ULD (universal language dictionary?) of 1600 words...but now
we're stretching beyond useful productive affixes and into roots.
---larry