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Language Division and Sorting
The Common Core
A mere 250 words are used for over 80% of everything we say. These words are known as CORE WORDS, or CORE VOCABULARY, and are common to all of us. (See Core Drawer Notes and wordlists at: Lang_123).
Core Drawers PowerPoint has 330 Common Core Words, with some of Michael's own words added, but Michael's words should be in a Custom Drawer, and the Core Drawer reserved for words that any user would use.
The Personal Core
Words that we don't all say everyday, but that a particular individual uses frequently, form that individual's PERSONAL CORE vocabulary.
E.g. the names of the People, Places, Things, Activities and Interests that matter to the individual, but not all names, belong in this group. Also known as CUSTOM CORE or USER CORE WORDS.
Fringe Vocabulary
Around 20,000 words are considered common and used by everyday people (GVT), but those outside of the first few hundred most common words are normally considered as FRINGE WORDS or EXTENDED VOCABULARY. (There are 500,000 words in English)
Core Drawers in Clicker with Fitz Colour-Coding
We want to make a new Core Drawers resource as a set of Clicker Grids, so Michael can be learning his LLL, accessing core vocabualry alongside other vocabularies, and have voice output and word processing options for each word clicked... (See draft images here).
The colour scheme is changed (from our clumsy attempt at coloured columns for scanning) to Fitzgerald colour-coding, where different colours are used for different types of word: Yellow for people, Pink for little words, Green for verbs, Orange for nouns, Blue for adjectives and Purple for places.
Core Drawer Notes:
Flashcard labels for the 330 most common words (according to this language sample), are filed in our 'Core Drawer', sorted by natural language group, as per Minspeak LLL, a sorting method that saves one from having to scroll through to 'T' and 'W' for common words like WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY... and THIS THAT THESE THOSE...
The two icons on each card represent the last two components of the file path to a card, both in our Core Drawers filing cabinet and in the LLL MAP (Minspeak Application Programme) that the 'Core Drawer' in our 'Lexis Filing Cabinet' is a tutorial for / analogy of (see more analogies / resources in My Talker section).
128 icons can be displayed all at once on a keyboard, and provide access to all the (up to 1,000s of) words and messages in a system from one main page, again like in Minspeak LLL, where all the icons take up permanent residence in a particular cell in a grid, making their locations learnable blindfold like QWERTY.
The same icons are re-used to label both folders and files, and your are either 'in' a folder, or choosing a file, depending on whether you are clicking on the first or second icon in a file path sequence, e.g. THELMA is the label for the TH- words folder, and she also labels the top level file in that folder 'THE' so the file path sequence to the word 'THE' is THELMA THELMA.
The folder with WATCH as its label contains the 7 Asking Phrases, HAVE 1? HAVE YOU? HAS HE? and also Time Words like NOW, NEVER, ALWAYS, YESTERDAY, TODAY, MIDNIGHT....
WATCH labels files like: WHEN in the WH- folder, THEN in the TH- folder, BEFORE and AFTER in the Position and Opposites of Position folders, EARLY, EARLIER, EARLIEST, and LATE, LATER, LATEST and LATELY in the Adjectives folders and Opposites of Adjectives folders, HAVE, HAS, HAD and HAVING in the Verbs folders, HAVEN'T, HASN'T and HADN'T in the Oposites of Verbs folders, I HAVE, YOU HAVE etc. in the Telling Phrases folders and I HAVEN'T, YOU HAVEN'T etc. in the Opposites of Telling Phrases folders...
Thank You Matt Groening. We found your Simpsons' Character Profiles filing cabinet when we were looking for a picture of Steve Hawkin's guest appearance on the show. We love it. Have we customised the original enough to be allowed to use it for our own purposes? We need a filing cabinet for our flash cards.