Ross Clark
2024-01-17 22:57:33 UTC
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.
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.