by pster » Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:37 pm
How many did you make for Homer?
I used a Perseus wordlist, but I wouldn't do it in the future. What I do now is the first time through a text, I click on a words that I don't know. They open in a new browser/tab. Then at the end of a session. I enter them on flashcardmachine.com. Using the back button, I can retrieve all of them. This is what I found works best. I use basically the entire LSJ entry, but I highlight those meanings that the author uses. One problem with the wordlist is that, as you say, it is not accurate. Another is that one needs to be a Perl programmer to manipulate it. A third is that it will contain many words that you know. The only thing about my method that I don't like is that the servers at Perseus are annoyingly slow. I'd pester them to speed them up, but they would probably end up changing all the links rendering all the LSJ hyperlinks on my beautiful cards useless.