coldrainwater wrote:There were some general tendencies that I noted simply because I spent so long making it. I avoided most grammar-heavy terms since I should be able to tackle those in their appropriate context. Furthermore, I wasn't keen on inundating a vocabulary list with grammar. I avoided both proper nouns and cognates, the latter of which probably excluded most of the dictionary technically. I also tried to make the terms themselves strongly distinct from one another, but also memorable enough to form an interesting, if a bit peculiar, list. Part of the reason for the cognate omission is that for scoring purposes, I don't want to be able to look at a Latin term and see another English word embedded inside it, either by root or otherwise. In my mind, I would unfairly get credit for learning a new word without putting in the actual challenge effort to do so. I made a few exceptions to this with terms that personally had more interest in than usual.
Thank you for making the effort to avoid obvious cognates / borrowings into English: it actually makes your wordlist quite useful... I think I'll share it elsewhere if you don't mind, although I wish you had included macrons, declension markers (-ae -i -orum -is...), and gender markers for any words whose gender isn't obvious. But I could make the effort to add these things myself.
Verbs don't make much sense without a subject and well, I decided to add an object, oh, and a time reference! мы идём вечером в кино / we go to the cinema tonight. My list can have just 10 of these and it takes a long time to get through it!
. Thanks for the ride!