Re: Taxonomic list (and Re: poll 30? (long...Sal at her most voluble)
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 0:55 |
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And Rosta wrote at 2003-06-03 01:44:05 (+0100)
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> 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".
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It's downloadable from his website here:
http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/uld/index.html
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