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  • Peter Mark Roget born (18-1-1779)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 18 11:57:33 2024
    Yes, it's "Thesaurus Day".
    Born in London of a Swiss Calvinist family.
    Pronounced UK: /ˈrɒʒeɪ/ US: /roʊˈʒeɪ/ (saith Wiki).
    Active in the world of science during his life, but now remembered
    almost entirely for the Thesaurus (1st ed. 1852).

    I once tried making a "thesaurus" of Proto-Polynesian -- well, a
    vocabulary arranged by semantic fields, with a more or less hierarchical structure. You can see a version of it here: https://pollex.eva.mpg.de/category/
    I found it a useful exercise, but was never satisfied with the overall
    scheme -- probably just because the actual mental lexicon is not in fact organized that way. But something like this is good for eliciting
    vocabulary from native speakers, where an alphabetical-order approach is counter-productive.

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Sat Jul 13 22:32:55 2024
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    On 1/17/2024 2:57 PM, Ross Clark wrote:
    Yes, it's "Thesaurus Day".

    Born in London of a Swiss Calvinist family.
    Pronounced UK: /ˈrɒʒeɪ/ US: /roʊˈʒeɪ/  (saith Wiki).

    Active in the world of science during his life, but now remembered
    almost entirely for the Thesaurus (1st ed. 1852).

    I once tried making a "thesaurus" of Proto-Polynesian -- well, a vocabulary arranged by semantic fields, with a more or less hierarchical structure. You can see a version of it here:

    https://pollex.eva.mpg.de/category/

    I found it a useful exercise, but was never satisfied with the overall
    scheme -- probably just because the actual mental lexicon is not in fact organized that way. But something like this is good for eliciting
    vocabulary from native speakers, where an alphabetical-order approach is counter-productive.



    Proto-Polynesian "thesaurus" by D.Crystal or by R.Clark?

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