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Mother/water/bed/food/etc easily translates into most (all?) languages. Obviously such concepts cross languages. In this analogy they are objects in high dim

by Retric 2y ago

Mother/water/bed/food/etc easily translates into most (all?) languages. Obviously such concepts cross languages. In this analogy they are objects in high dimensional space, but we can also translate concepts that don’t have a specific word associated with them. People everywhere have a way to refer to “corrupt cop” or “chess opening” and so forth.

quectophoton 2y ago
> Mother/water/bed/food/etc easily translates into most (all?) languages. Obviously such concepts cross languages. See also: Swadesh List and its variations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list), an attempt to make a list of such basic and common concepts. "Bed" and "food" don't seem to be in those lists though, but "sleep" and "eat" are.