>hasn’t it been suggested that the internals of google translate and similar systems have effectively constructed such a meta-language? No, Google Translate an

>hasn’t it been suggested that the internals of google translate and similar systems have effectively constructed such a meta-language? No, Google Translate and other state of the art machine translation software rely on large corpuses of linguistic data from which they make statistical inference. They do not have a 'centralized metalanguage' which ontologizes meaning in the manner described by OP.