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Re: [lojban] semantic primes can define anything
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- Subject: Re: [lojban] semantic primes can define anything
- From: "Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:19:20 -0300
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On 3/24/06, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> And yet this is precisely Wierzbicka's claim: That any and all nonprime
> words can be defined completely in terms of the semantic primes that she and
> her group are finding and testing.
Yes, a very strong claim. Unfortunately, only a few of their
definitions seem to be available online (at least I haven't managed
to find more than a few scattered examples), so it's hard to judge
how successful they've been so far.
> A second claim (for which they are seeking counterexamples) is that all
> natural languages have the primes.
Well, Lojban doesn't seem to have a word for FEEL which
covers both sensations and emotions, but then it is not a
natural language, and the word could always be introduced
as a lujvo or fu'ivla. :)
mu'o mi'e xorxes