Here are some critical words for our vocabulary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_EnglishThey need to be put into alphabetical order. If nobody else does this, I will make a point of putting them in order
when I get a chance, if you think that that would be useful.
Perhaps I could also come up with a few random words in Terris and someone could decide which English words
to equate them with. As an example the Terris word "sogo" means... ____?
edit: I propose "sogo" = "jelly".
a lot of these can (don't have to, but can) be grammatical inflections rather than standalone words
i'd start with this list instead:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list OK, I was primarily aiming at including a short list of 100 common words, so if that is a better list, we can use that one instead.
Eventually we can include 850 words:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Basic_English_word_listsorted alphabetically the same words:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_English_alphabetical_wordlistIs there also a better list than this? If so I would be interested in seeing it.
(edit: note that the first link sorts words by category and the first list of 100 words seem essential)
