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

Sally:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>
>
> > Sally:
> > > For what it's worth, you can see it at:
> > >
> > >     http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teotax.html
> >
> > Fascinating. Hours of poring lie ahead of me (or would if time permitted:
> > I have only got as far as the garden so far)
>
> That's where I began to wig out.  Too many flowers to invent names for.
I like doing flower names. Lots of scope for phonaesthesia & no nagging
sense that there should be any systematicity to the names.

How did you come up with the English entries? It seems both more and
less detailed than an English thesaurus would yield.

I'm always on the look-out for some sort of magic list of English words
as ingredients to build a basic vocab. I must get round to seeing
whether I have a copy of Rick Harrison's ULD on my hard disk.

> > 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
>
> I would be interested, too.  I've tried to use Excel, but I can't get it to
> work.  What I want the Excel columns to do is "switch."  I can alphabetize,
> but I can't seem to separate column A from Column B.  Column A can be
> alphabetized, and it carries the Column B items with it.  But how do I get
> Column B to become A and vice versa, which I can then alphabetize, and still
> have all the words and meanings united?  My column B seems welded to Column
> A
I'm not sure I understand. I've just checked that one can alphabetize
by Column B, which sorts all rows by B. Why do you need to switch
columns?

BTW, I would use a Word table for something as basic as this -- easier
to get control of layout, and make use of the more text-oriented
functions of Word. You can copy an Excel spreadsheet into Word.

--And.

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