From: Christian Thalmann (cinga@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 03:14:28 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen
<ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote:
> > I just printed out and counted the C-a -
> > English dictionary and found 946 entries. I about to
> > enter a few more and then go get some diner.
>
> Hehe. I had never suspected that word-building for languages like
ours could be
> so much fun.
Jovian is also around 950 by now. I have the dictionary
online, but it's only tab-delimited plain text. AppleWorks
won't offer me any other export format. =(
http://www.cinga.ch/langmaking/dj.txt
> Ha! Isn't it? I would certainly do them if I had the time. My only
problem with
> these Weekly vocabs is that I first need an English dictionary to
decypher the
> English ;), which I find sometimes discouraging.
Same here. I'm contemplating the launch of an alternate
weekly vocab series with *useful* words and sentences that
actually *use* these words rather than an anglocentric
idiom.
-- Christian Thalmann
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