200-word vocabulary

[ffutures]

For the automaton thing I've said that the default vocabulary is 200 words - it seems about right. What I think I now need to do is decide what the most useful 100 or so words are, assuming that the remainder are specialised skill-related words etc. To make things easier I'll assume that plurals etc. of words don't count, e.g. gun, guns are one word (and would be skill-related anyway)

So... suggestions for the core vocabulary?

Comments

Word up, dude.

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

Danger
Help
Malfunction
Repair
Request
Need
More
Ammunition
Oil
Coal (presumably, your automatons run on coal, yes?)
Enemy
Sighted
Rough
Terrain
Tea (presumably, there would be at least a minimal domestic function, yes?)
Sugar
Milk
Lemon
Direction
North
South
East
West
Up
Down
Left
Right
Engine
Order (or Command)
Result

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Not sure if those helped or not. Was all I could think of on the spur of the moment.

Re: Word up, dude.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I was thinking more of words like "put, get, bring" etc. but some of those will be good, especially Tea (since the automaton in all the examples has a special tap on its boiler for making the stuff).