George Boeree | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: missing word lists

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Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
Tema: Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: missing word lists
Data: 2002-11-11 23:42
Mesaje: 379 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Hi, Bjorn.

Yes, I'm afraid it's so:  I cannot open those uldic files.  I need the
Dutch one and the French one, in order to fill in what's missing, and
the English one (of course).  I can get the 1600 word lists, but I need
the uldic ones to match up the numbers.  I don't know what you can do
with that program, but the ideal for me would be English-Dutch-French
with the numbers.  I'm sorry to make so much trouble for you!  I love my
Macs, but they can make it hard to communicate with others!

I worked on the "master dictiionary this weekend  (I really should get a
life).  The only errors I found that significantly effect other lists
are sense (not sensa) and consense (not consensa), and lejere (not lus,
obviously) for light in weight.  Spelling repairs include desaperir (not
desaparir), desenfetar (not disenfetar), rompeda (not rompada), and
seguente (not secuente).  Dropped were esterior (esterna covers it), and
added were interna (internal, inner, inside, interior), intervisar
(interview), violer (violate, brutalize), coarda (cowardly, coward),
combustar (combust).  Confluense was changed to conflue and confluer was
added, following influer and esfluer.

An interesting tidbit:  While fixing the errors, I found that there are
only about 2300 root words in LFN.  As I went through the list I removed
(temporarily) any word that was derived (such as nouns from verbs and
verbs from nouns, male-female versions, trees-fruit, anything ending
with the suffixes -ia, -or, -eria, -in, -os, -al, -able, or the prefixes
re-, des-, or in-, except for those with significantly distinct
meanings).  I used to think that 5000 roots was the minimum for a
language to be useful, but it seems I overestimated.  LFN as it
presently exists easily can handle anything but highly technical work.

Best wishes to all!

George

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