From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Wed Jan 6 09:31:36 1999 X-Digest-Num: 38 Message-ID: <44114.38.124.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:31:36 -0500 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" Richard Curnow wrote: >> Is there a list of gismu around, sorted into an ordering which >> represents a good order for learning them? > >The 2-letter code following the place structure in the main gismu >list represents Logflash order. Actually, this isn't true. As I said in my earlier post, sorting on the numbers in columns 161-164 in descending order gives the current LogFlash order. The two letter codes (actually a number and a letter in most cases) are something else. In the original draft textbook, outlined as 18 chapters of which only 6 were written, I scoped out the then gismu list and assigned which lesson numbers I would introduce them in, and then subgrouped them either by semantic category or some othe criteria so I could introduce them in the indicated lesson in some logical way. A letter in the first position (I think I only used "a") is just a lesson number after 9) Sorting on the code will therefore get my originally intended textbook order, which no longer has much meaning, now that the draft textbook has been broken into 20+ pieces. The "textbook order", while it is not frequency based, does do some groupings of words by semantic categoriess, so that, for example, you learn all the color gismu at one time, even though some may be more used than others and a frequency list will have them scattered over many lessons. That is one reason why I have kept the codes in the gismu list. lojbab