There is a saying, don't know by whom: 'To love one's beloved is to love one's beloved's friends, and one's beloved's dog, and one's beloved's children, and one's beloved's wife, and one's beloved's beloved one.'
Yeah, but if I understand correctly ChristianKI's language has special provision for things like "my boss's boss" and "my beloved's beloved" but not for "my boss's husband" and "my beloved's friends". You pick a particular relationship and then you have efficient ways of describing complicated paths through the graph it defines, but there isn't special machinery for combining multiple relationships.
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.