Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016)

#1

Post by david_ar » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 3:33 AM UTC

Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016)
learnthesewordsfirst.com

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#2

Post by grenoire » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:27 AM UTC

Has there been any attempts to 'translate' this into other languages? I'm struggling most often with vocabulary first, whereas the grammar is much easier for me to grasp (programming helps?)

Re: Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016)

#3

Post by WrtCdEvrydy » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:29 AM UTC

grenoire wrote: post #2

Has there been any attempts to 'translate' this into other languages? I'm struggling most often with vocabulary first, whereas the grammar is much easier for me to grasp (programming helps?)

I could swear I've seen something alike for Spanish.

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Post by dvh » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:29 AM UTC

ash =

When something burns and becomes many very small dry pieces that moving air can cause to move.

Kind of tree.

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Post by Animats » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:31 AM UTC

The 60 words:

to see, saw, seen. thing, something, what. this, these. the other, another, else, is the same as, be, am, are, being, was, were. one of. two of. person, people. many of, much of. inside. not, do not, does not, did not, some of. all of. there is, there are. more than, live, alive. big. small. very, kind of. if, then. touch. far from. near to, in a place, someplace, where. above. on a side of, hear, heard. say to, said about. word. true.

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Post by gerry_shaw » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:31 AM UTC

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #3

grenoire wrote: post #2

Has there been any attempts to 'translate' this into other languages? I'm struggling most often with vocabulary first, whereas the grammar is much easier for me to grasp (programming helps?)

I could swear I've seen something alike for Spanish.

I would love this in Spanish and French.

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Post by peterkelly » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:37 AM UTC

If you like this, you'll definitely enjoy the talk "Growing a Language", by Guy Steele:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

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Post by aserafini » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:38 AM UTC

grenoire wrote: post #2

Has there been any attempts to 'translate' this into other languages? I'm struggling most often with vocabulary first, whereas the grammar is much easier for me to grasp (programming helps?)

Seconded, I _need_ this for German.

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Post by harperlee » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:41 AM UTC

Just 60 words plus a huge context shared with the reader through living a human life (so not a lot of hope of feeding this into an algorithm and having it do anything resembling understanding).

Or perhaps with thorough explanations something like this could help bootstrap understanding by a machine?

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Post by raldi » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:46 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #5

The 60 words: to see, saw, seen. thing, something, what. this, these. the other, another, else, is the same as, be, am, are, being, was, were. one of. two of. person, people. many of, much of. inside. not, do not, does not, did not, some of. all of. there is, there are. more than, live, alive. big. small. very, kind of. if, then. touch. far from. near to, in a place, someplace, where. above. on a side of, hear, heard…

How would you define left and right based on these words?