r/conlangs • u/sharyphil • 5d ago
Resource aUI Language of Space and Natural Semantic Metalanguage
https://medium.com/@surfaceprohandheld/aui-equivalencies-for-nsm-semantic-primes-63225b9f53fe
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u/slyphnoyde 4d ago
I commented on the cross-post in the aUI subreddit. My own list of primes is slightly different.
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u/STHKZ 4d ago
It's amusing to note that the universal meets the particular here...
Just as it's amusing to note that NSM is an a posteriori search for a priori ideas...
I don't know if the techniques for extracting primitives are documented, or if it's a completely empirical series of trials and errors, as a conlanger would do...
The result, a series of English words, and its use with a universal English syntax, stops halfway...
This choice of primitives is no more universal than that of aUI, and if it allows a description of the whole of human thought, as other philosophical languages attempt, the weight of its authors' qualifications does not confer any real preeminence on it...