Re: Comparison of philosophical languages

Andrew wrote:
>Andrew Nowicki wrote:
>AN> There are only 180 root words in Ygyde, not enough
>AN> to define God, heaven, hell, and baptism. From the
>AN> linguistic point of view these words are not very
>An> important, because they are not very common.
>
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>AJ> I've met people claiming to be agnostics for whom
>AJ> the Swedish words for "hell" and "god" certainly
>AJ> belong within the 180 commonest ones. Imagine the
>AJ> type of person whose every fifth word is "fuck"
>AJ> speaking a language where swearwords and similar
>AJ> are predominantly from the religious area ...
>
>OK. You are right. "Hell" and "god" are common words,
>but you would not use them frequently as root words.
>"Religious" is a more versatile root word than "hell"
>or "god" and so it has to be the only religious root
>word in a limited vocabulary of the root words.
As you may be aware, I was temporarily nomail when this discussion started.
I'm beginning to think you are using the term "root word" differently than I
assumed. So, to keep down the rate of misunderstandings, could you spell out
what you mean by "root word" here?

(It may be pointed out that the Swedish words in question, _gud_ och
_helvete_, are historically derived, but synchronically are unitary
non-analyzable words.)

                                               Andreas

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