Re: New project
Whittaker, Pat 
Wed, 24 Mar 99 06:42:00 M


This sounds like a good idea.  It's much easier to visit a web site and get 
a dictionary that you can store on your hard drive for future reference.  At 
least, I find it much easier.

Selek
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From: owner-vulcan-linguistics
To: vulcan-linguistics
Subject: Re: New project
Date: Monday, 22 March, 1999 12:10PM

At 07:26 PM 3/21/99 -0500, MDriest wrote:
>[Quoting Saul:]
<snip>
>Yes, I must admit I lost track a bit. I have a proposal.
>- Please someone make one document of all the changes.
>- Send it over the list.
>- We accept all changes provisionally.
>
>- We then take the basic grammar and the changes as a set.
>- We make up dozens of sentences and start translating. We
>will automatically see which modifications work well and
>which don't. It will give us a nice way to finalise the
>grammar.

Essentially, that's what Saul, Marketa and I agreed to do. Saul and I have 
both mad
suggested additions to the vocabulary and grammar, and we want to see how 
those
work as you suggest by getting more words and playing with them.

BTW, I think I speak for Saul when I invite anyone who's still hanging
around here to please speak up if you have a suggestion.

So I think that we plan to first post all the current words+generated words 
on my web
page as a "draft" vocabulary. Then as Marketa can review them, she'll post 
the final form
of those words (in case she wants to alter them) to her dictionary on her 
web page. Her
dictionary is the "canon" vocabulary. As she posts her changes, if she could 
let me know I'll
make the appropriate changes to my "draft" version in addition to adding new 
generated
words.

In the mean time I hope Saul (or someother interested party) will volunteer 
to keep track of
the grammar suggestions on their web page, and likewise as Marketa approves 
them we can
create a new "canon" grammar on her page.


>Another thing. Someone had a word-generator here
>somewhere. I remember receiving all words with an a.
>Were there ever created more words?
>We desperately need a bigger lexicon.

I created the Java program which does this. It's in need of revision, and as
soon as I make some changes I can start cranking out new words for the draft
vocabulary. I will put those words my new home page (dumping my current 
ISP).
Details will follow in about a month when the new home page is up.


Rob Z.