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

In a message dated 2003:06:02 05:45:58 PM, a.rosta@LYCOS.CO.UK writes:

>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??????
    ::raises hand, raises hand & paw (raising Luc the Black Cat's paw)::

::stagewhisperin'::  pssst!, wanna hot copy??? email me offlist, man...

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