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

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 again, with what I've got up, and many are horribly out of
date.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.

At any rate, I've bitten off more than I can chew; I got tired of trying to
enter these, ran out of time, so this will go up slowly, as the on-line
Teo-Eng has slowly increased over five years.  The list shows a frolicsome
outburst for parts of the body, clothing, family, and the household, and
then a nauseated decline for foods, disease, sensations, a gung-ho pickup
for religion and concepts...almost nothing on sports and war.

I think if all could be filled in, with relevant verbs and adjectives added,
and of course all the function words, there would be an adequate vocabulary
for expressing oneself in, and still gaps will remain.  Like "technically."
Lots of synonyms, I've noted.  Many words for "aggressor."  You forget what
you've invented.  Also missing are the animals and foods that are "Strictly
Teonaht."  Those need to be added, too.  I have a few items of clothing that
are s.t.

I can't remember who asked me to give the list without the Teonaht... I
would have had to erase about 1000 entries, so here it is, warts and all.
I've about had it with T. for the rest of the summer.

A night of good dreams to you all.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Taxonomic list (and Re: poll 30? (long...Sal at her most
voluble)


> I would of course like to have one, too, Roger.  And I'm going to post my
> own, soon.  Then you'll see the trouble it's giving me.  And it will be
> vastly incomplete.
>

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