Tuesday, August 1, 2023

A new language

Consider this funny sentence : John sandwichized. Suppose adding 'ized' to anything meant in our present-day language - hold it in your hand, put into your mouth, chew, swallow. Suppose there was no word like 'ate' (or 'eat') at all taught to you. And by the above, we understood what we TRULY UNDERSTAND by "John ate a sandwich." In a sentence, there is an indicator (word/chunk of the sentence/part of a word) for every concept. Learning language is learning which indicator stands for which concept in reality. For example, the suffix 'ized' to sandwich here makes us understand that a sandwich was eaten. The trouble with our language is that - there is a PARTIAL word “ate” for the literal process of eating, standing for - 'putting in mouth + chewing + swallowing'. Hence something is left to commonsense (which here is that ‘ate with “hand”’). If our language was like the way its suggested above, there would be no need for commonsense! This vaguely inspires something like - what if we have a language in which there are words, for all different collections of words which form the "commonsense package" associated with the present-day-language partial words, in various scenarios?

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