europidgin | About word lists

• Autor: europidgin
• Tema: About word lists
• Data: 2002-09-26 09:57
• Mesaje: 255 (presedente, seguente)

To George, Jay, Kevin and other members who are concerned with lists.

I don't think it is possible to make a fixed list of words like "Basic English" below around 1000 words. By the way the 850 words was not enough in Basic. A limited vocabulary forces people to use a lot of compound words that are as difficult to learn as any other words.

I think that a word list for travellers is a good thing. George already have one at his web site.

Another list for beginners and newcommers with the most often used words can make it easy to start reading LFN/EP texts.

Then we need a list big enough to describe all the words in the complete dictionary. I guess that such list also can cover ordinary daily use. This list should be translated into as many languages as possible. The "Universal Language Dictionary" might be to some help here, because it makes it easy to add new languages. Perhaps we could share the work of making an "ULD" list between us. It is only 1600 words.

The work is to add the right HEX-Number to the right LFN-words then there is a program to compile word lists.

And lastly the complete dictionary where I think all the words should be described in LFN/EP.

What do you think??

Bjorn