Talk:Semantic primes

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 Definition:  Words universal to all Earth's natural languages, their meaning ordinarily learned during development solely through the way contemporaries use them, serving as a basic set of words by which lexicographers could, in principle, define without circularity all the other words in a given language's lexicon. [d] [e]
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Starting Semantic primes for Jan08 Write-a-Thon

Trying to keep the within-discipline technical words to a minimum in order to reach a larger but still educated audience. --Anthony.Sebastian 22:39, 9 January 2008 (CST)

Anthony, you address the reader assuming (s)he is a child, but as you well know CZ is not a children's encyclopedia. --Paul Wormer 14:42, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
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