Re: Taxonomic list (and Re: poll 30? (long...Sal at her most voluble)

Sally:
> For what it's worth, you can see it at:
>
>     http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teotax.html
>
> It's 88 printed pages, with about 3000 entries in English.  of those, about
> 1600 are entered in Teonaht.  Of those 1600 about 600 are already in the
> Teonaht-English lexicon, which itself is about 1600 entries.  And the
> entries in the taxonomy have some overlap.  So I don't really have any idea
> what number of words I've created for Teonaht, and only a vague idea of
> what I've put on-line... much less than the 4000 + I thought I had.  I
> counted the words in the yellowed pages and they came to about 2000, but
> they overlap, <G> again, with what I've got up, and many are horribly out
> of date.  And so many are missing
Fascinating. Hours of poring lie ahead of me (or would if time permitted:
I have only got as far as the garden so far).

Vocab creation has not been a priority for me, because I really need to
get the function words sorted first so that I know which phonological
space is free. But my plan is to end up with a Livagian > English
wordlist, which would contain all Livagian word-forms (equivalent
to listing inflected forms in an English dictionary), and a taxonomically
structured 'thesaurus'. (This is also how I have tried to format my
Lojban wordlists, though building the thesaurus is a time-consuming
and incomplete job.)

Because I have never ventured to introduce myself to the world
of databases, I currently enter all Livagian words in a large table
in a Word document. There's one column for alphabetizable spelling,
one for the standard orthography, and one for the meaning. For readily
taxonomizable words, the first word in the meaning column specifies
its semantic category, so that sorting by this column yields a
partial and rudimentary thesaurus. I'm sure all this could be done
in a much better way -- & I'd be interested to hear people's advice
on this -- but I mention it because it doesn't take much effort, yet
gives proportionately good results.

--And.

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