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(Philosophical) Language Words Challenge

From:Ben Haanstra <kof@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2007, 18:25
As I tried to find for a nice list of words to 'try out' my conlang it
seemed most links were dead or was a list of sentences to test grammar,
however I wanted to test words to see whether I was missing something.

Because I wasn't able to find any I went on made my own list to test,
perhaps other people would be interested as well to test there conlang or so.
Made 5 levels of words. 1. Easy being normal average day ones 2. More
difficult ones 3. Abstract ones 4. Intense/hard ones 5. Ultimate ones/sentences


>Normal 'easy' words:
1. car 2. telephone 3. door 4. male person (not just male, but a person who is male) 5. toy (for a child) 6. wire 7. window 8. water 9. street 10. book 11. hands 12. a word 13. tree 14. apple 15. (office) building 16. floor 17. house 18. work 19. bicycle 20. music 21. legs 22. body 23. pocket 24. conversation 25. air 26. sky 27. star 28. story 29. to write 30. to walk 31. money 32. fight 33. to fill 34. life 35. kill 36. gun 37. child 38. female 39. family 40. making 41. working 42. relationship 43. to smell 44. to see 45. to hear 46. country 47. language 48. 'we' 49. 'I' 50. 'you'
>More difficult words:
1. pickpocketer 2. railroad 3. computer file 4. chat(at computer) 5. spaceshuttle 6. corruption 7. programming 8. to fail 9. unbelievable 10. compensation 11. impossible 12. surround 13. sound 14. library 15. murder 16. in-law wife 17. marriage 18. a date 19. monitor 20. disco 21. Stand up 22. The Moon 23. The Sun 24. God 25. And 26. Or 27. message 28. hero 29. entertainment 30. city 31. hospital 32. animal 33. hunt 34. route 35. plan 36. royalty 37. king 38. escape 39. error 40. answer 41. room 42. forest 43. to copy 44. liquid 45. gas 46. war 47. television 48. truck 49. black 50. blue
>Intense words:
1. clusterbombs 2. linguistics 3. overburdend 4. avarice 5. Plunder 6. to rape 7. intoxication 8. magic 9. sonar 10. portal 11. porcupline 12. africanic giraf 13. poultry 14. health-service 15. rich prince 16. nuclear 17. philosophical 18. maiden 19. enrichment 20. possiblity 21. manners 22. dormitory 23. a poodle (the dog) 24. coffee 25. burning sword 26. total superiority 27. through a place 28. then after 29. combustible 30. registering everything 31. inregular 32. meta 33. uvula 34. very timid 35. loud screech 36. full stroke 37. skyscraper 38. light pink 39. dark yellow 40. broken lock 41. occupation 42. encyclopedia 43. composite 44. condemnation 45. subglacial eruptions 46. entrustment 47. surgical doctor 48. tomorrow night 49. battleship 50. CONLANG!
>Abstract words:
1. movement 2. interaction 3. group 4. destruction 5. creation 6. connection 7. relation 8. dissonance 9. static 10. invisible 11. vision 12. audio 13. cohesion 14. context 15. goal 16. source 17. physics 18. extension 19. love 20. hate 21. liberation 22. rise 23. lower 24. conjunction 25. disjunction 26. compounding 27. discussion 28. abstractness 29. correction 30. duplication 31. multiplication 32. knowledge 33. direction 33. time 34. confusion 35. nature 36. identification 40. copula 41. to be 42. normal 43. special 44. status 45. event 46. location 47. matter 48. maximum 49. derivation 50. inflection
>Ultimate words/sentences:
1. 27 days later at near midnight 2. universal language translating machine 3. instant filling of a bag with liquid 4. controlled duplication of trees 5. relationship between a chicken and bacteria 6. an imperium in space containing 91 planets 7. experience of a rude immature raping 8. prepational words used for a conversation with several unknown people 9. sapir-whorf theory 10. survival of the fittest 11. a group of angry people with weapons 12. self-fulfilling prophecy 13. automatic language analyzing machine 14. 5 steps forward and 3 right and 1 meter up in the air 15. the construction of an underground train 16. my invisbility cloak is denying! 17. Long time ago a superior warrior was born 18. a crumbled cookie which disappeared in the mouth 19. a halfbroken on the right spiderweb 20. segmentative (a group handling as one, containing identical members) 21. skullcrushing number 7 22. The general idea behind sending messages to each other 23. sky with 2 suns with one overlapping the other 24. In reaction I immediately vomitted 25. The valence between you and me 26. Subglacial eruption 27. the constant of Planck 28. the description of antimattercollision events 29. The will of entering an inaccesible dimension 30. Whale singing music on a CD