a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by bgritzut
bgritzut  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 14 wonderful words with no English equivalent

This reminds me of this article about constructed languages.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_...

    ...an idealized language whose aim is the highest possible degree of logic, efficiency, detail, and accuracy in cognitive expression via spoken human language, while minimizing the ambiguity, vagueness, illogic, redundancy, polysemy (multiple meanings) and overall arbitrariness that is seemingly ubiquitous in natural human language.”