HERE ARE 7 ENGLISH WORDS
Above
Acquire
Agape
Alder
Alive
Allot
Ancestor
“LIKE” THIS TOOT AND I WILL POST 7 MORE
@Lady@cat.family it's not exactly the same but along similar lines ... when I visited Greece I realized I knew words for concepts like victory and "the people", and obscure things like how an ox plows a field, but had no idea how to ask directions.
@Lady what is this bit
@Lady oh never mind i saw your explanation
@aescling i am posting 7 english words whenever someone likes the most recent post containing 7 english words
@Lady yes i noticed that
@aescling well, that’s the bit
@wallhackio @Lady i almost made this post but with “you’ve nothing to lose but your chains” but that exact phrase (as the actual eight words from the Manifesto) was famously said appurrovingly on star trek once
one of the more difficult conlanging problems is acquiring good lists of words with a reasonable semantic distribution so you don’t wind up with 50 words for travel but can’t talk about what you ate for breakfast, or whatever
so anyway i have some lists of words