Comment by autoexec
2 days ago
I question how well many of the words that come to mind could be defined using only other one syllable words, but it sounds like a fun project.
2 days ago
I question how well many of the words that come to mind could be defined using only other one syllable words, but it sounds like a fun project.
Most of them aren't defined as rigorously as a dictionary would do, it's more like trying to come up with a plausible description for each word.
"day" might be "time in which the sun goes round the earth" even though that's not technically correct.
"sit" could be "to take a chair" and "sat" might be "to have took a chair"
"moth" is "a bug that flies and likes to eat cloth", and so on.
I made the “sit” gloss long: “to rest your body on your bum (while your bum is on a thing such as a chair or the ground) while your back is up”.