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lists of category-like things that aren't quite classifications, or that are associated with languages, or that are vaguely related to categorization.
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Borges' joke classifications that purposefully doesn't make much sense, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge
The list divides all animals into 14 categories:
those belonging to the Emperor embalmed ones trained ones suckling pigs mermaids (or sirens) fabled ones stray dogs those included in this classification those that tremble as if they were mad innumerable ones those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush et cetera those that have just broken the vase those that from afar look like flies
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https://userinyerface.com/game.html
Choose 3 interests Ponies Polo Dough Snails Balls Post-its Faucets Enveloppes Cables Questions Squares Purple Cotton Dry-wall Closets Tires Windows Select all Mullets Cinnamon Unselect all
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the meanings of the characters associated with each of the 201 radicles in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Simplified_Chinese_radicals . These aren't actually meant to provide a basis-set of meaning
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Towards_a_Real_Character,_and_a_Philosophical_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Towards_a_Real_Character,_and_a_Philosophical_Language#Wilkins'_scheme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro_language https://sorabji.com/r/ro/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage https://intranet.secure.griffith.edu.au/schools-departments/natural-semantic-metalanguage/minimal-english/what-is-minimal-english/vocabulary-and-grammar-of-minimal-english
http://wp1.fuchu.jp/~d-logic/en/uni.html
Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapperboard
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