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NSM, undefined in the article, appears to be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_meta

• kybernetikos 5y ago
  I wish these had been used as the basis for the set of emoji.
• andai 5y ago
  From the same website: "What is NSM" https://intranet.secure.griffith.edu.au/schools-departments/natural-semantic-metalanguage/what-is-nsm https://intranet.secure.griffith.edu.au/schools-departments/... >Assuming that reductive paraphrase can be made to work as a method of analysing meanings, it follows that every language has an irreducible "semantic core" which would be left after all the complex expressions had been dealt with. This semantic core must have a language-like structure, with a lexicon of indefinable expressions ("semantic primes") and a grammar, i.e. some principles governing how the lexical elements can be combined. The semantic primes and their principles of combination constitute a kind of "mini-language".