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About a year ago, I realized that my assignment of meanings to modifier
morphemes was too ad hoc, resulting in many bad choices. To solve this
problem, I decided to define several thousand root words as a
combination of one or more modifiers plus an appropriate classifier.
During this process, new modifiers were added, some were deleted, and
many were changed. Some of the classifiers also changed.
After encoding about 4000 Ladekwa words (having about 6500 English
equivalents), I then re-assigned strings to modifiers, trying to assign
the most common modifier meanings to the shortest and
easiest-to-pronounce modifier strings.
This process is now finished, and the results can be obtained at either
of my web sites:
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/Ladekwa/index.html
http://www.axxess.net/ram/Ladekwa/index.html
The reference manual and the dictionaries now use the new assignments, and
the lessons should follow over the next few weeks.
I spent about a year working on this, but I believe the results are
worth it. I should have done this several years ago.
Regards,
Rick Morneau
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram