> And Rosta wrote at 2003-06-03 01:44:05 (+0100)
> >
> > Way way back in the early days of Conlang, the illustrious Rick
> > Harrison compiled the Universal Language Dictionary, which, iirc,
> > was a list of the 2000 most basic 'concepts' in a language. The
> > list was compiled by synthesizing many different sources, and was
> > compiled for the benefit of conlangers. I find I do not have a copy
> > of the ULD, & it seems not to be publicly available any
> > longer. DOES ANYBODY HAVE A COPY?????? What I do have, though, is
> > a file compiled by Rick to supersede the ULD, called "Vital English
> > Vocabulary"
> >
>
> It's downloadable from his website here:
>
http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/uld/index.html