Re: Langauge Constets (was Natural Semantic Metalanguage)

--- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

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> Perhaps instead of each word adding more meaning to
> the sentence, each wourd
> could subtract meaning from the sentence. Use words
> so broad as to be
> essentially meaningless, but when combined with
> other words take the meaning(s)
> _shared_ by the two words.
>
> For example, "glundi" means "large, blue, glowing,
> animal", and "finja" means
> "red, glowing, automobile, animal", and "wagnus"
> means "tree, horse, broken,
> cloud". So it's clear that "glundi finja wagnus" can
> only mean "horse".
 Unless it means "large broken automobile" or "glowing
cloud", both of which I can think of a context for.

Geoff

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