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Answering this is a goal of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by schoen 10y ago
Answering this is a goal of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage
One thing that's confused me about this project is how much they are relying on people's prior human experience to understand the explications -- maybe a question of how much they use extensional or intensional definitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensional_and_intensional_definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensional_and_intensional_de...
- ZenPsycho 10y agothanks for this link. I have been thinking a lot about what the language "primes" are, and my approach was looking at chinese writing's "radicals", a small list of symbols that it combines to form every written word. i wonder also how well you could get language primes to align with the axes of a word vector, as used in word2vec and other neural network based translation engines. what would a pure vector based language look like, I wonder?
- throwaway7645 10y agoAPL is a real programming language used in specialized domains like finance since the 70's I believe and can convey a lot of information in a single line of code. It looks like Greek symbols because it was developed by a mathematician. Pretty cool stuff. The primitive data type is the array so it works well with parallel calculations...etc.
- fusiongyro 10y agoI wanted to thank you for mentioning NSM. I hadn't heard of it before and it's quite exciting and interesting research—seems like a fantastic jumping-off point for building a small language!