If you however put effort into thinking through the primitives of your language, you can actually easily make words that are understood without having to be learned specifically.
I highly doubt this is true or possible in any meaningful degree. There have already been several conlangs that try this—Lojban is one with its compounding system, another is Toki Pona. While it’s definitely possible to have compounds whose meaning is related to their components, each context a specific component is going to have to be interpreted in its own special way. Again, because of context. You’re going to have to learn something explicitly regardless.
I highly doubt this is true or possible in any meaningful degree.
I gave an example of my friend having an experience where Esperanto already allowed him to have a conservation about meditation that he couldn’t have had easily in English or German which are the languages he otherwise speaks.
Lojban put little effort into it as evidenced by having words for individual cardinal directions instead of going for a more systematic approach.
When it comes to family relations and also for things like lover/metamour, you would model them mathematical as a graph plus a context. Systematizing a language allows you to have words for things like metamour that are immediately understood.
I highly doubt this is true or possible in any meaningful degree. There have already been several conlangs that try this—Lojban is one with its compounding system, another is Toki Pona. While it’s definitely possible to have compounds whose meaning is related to their components, each context a specific component is going to have to be interpreted in its own special way. Again, because of context. You’re going to have to learn something explicitly regardless.
I gave an example of my friend having an experience where Esperanto already allowed him to have a conservation about meditation that he couldn’t have had easily in English or German which are the languages he otherwise speaks.
Lojban put little effort into it as evidenced by having words for individual cardinal directions instead of going for a more systematic approach.
When it comes to family relations and also for things like lover/metamour, you would model them mathematical as a graph plus a context. Systematizing a language allows you to have words for things like metamour that are immediately understood.