Should "father" be "caiqne" rather than "caiqma" as your comment currently says?
I could count on one maimed hand the number of times I've needed to say "teacher of my teacher". That a language wastes short possible-words on such things is not obviously a recommendation.
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I could count on one maimed hand the number of times I've needed to say "teacher of my teacher". That a language wastes short possible-words on such things is not obviously a recommendation.
Teacher of my teacher might not be a good example to show usefulness. Boss of my boss is likely more useful. Even boss of the boss of my boss is a concept that's worthy of being expressed in big modern corporations.
But even a phrase like teacher of the teacher of my teacher can be useful when talking about martial arts lineages.
...That a language wastes sh
I'm working on a conlang (constructed language) and would like some input from the Less Wrong community. One of the goals is to investigate the old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis regarding language affecting cognition. Does anyone here have any ideas regarding linguistic mechanisms that would encourage more rational thinking, apart from those that are present in the oft-discussed conlangs e-prime, loglan, and its offshoot lojban? Or perhaps mechanisms that are used in one of those conlangs, but might be buried too deeply for a person such as myself, who only has superficial knowledge about them, to have recognized? Any input is welcomed, from other conlangs to crazy ideas.