Re: weekly vocab

From: "Aidan Grey" <grey@...>
>    You know, I thought of that problem too. Indeed, half of the words I
> derived and posted to the list have gone byebye already. I was thinking
> that having a theme each week might help. For example, zoo week, wherein
> the 5 (or 10) words would all have to do with the zoo. Or the computer wee,
> or the stew week, or the birthday week, or...
The problem with something like that is... well, even with diverse vocab like
this week's people already say things like 'my conculture doesn't have this'
(birch trees are based on location, werewolves on mythology, etc.)  I imagine
quite a few people would be left out with semantic fields like 'computer' for a
week...

BTW, another possible Nuif/Ibraan word for 'werewolf' would be <gherouf> or
<guerouf> (depending on how I decide to spell /xeru:f/ [GE4u:f]...)

>    I could also, with a little work, come up with a short sentence or two
> that used all the presented words. Or a sentence per word. As the task is
> completely voluntary, people could ignore it as they see fit, but it could
> help provide context when creating the words.
A sentence-of-the-week, even if it doesn't use the week's vocabulary, is a good
idea, especially if it requires more complex grammatical constructs than generic
'subject phrase verb-phrases object phrase'.

    *Muke!
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