Experience is the Foundation of Words

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Experiences in English

Words are derived from base experiences. The base of a word is actually the experience it represents.

In English, we don't have direct words for the things of experience, instead we at least subdivide experiences into:

• actions (verbs)
• objects (nouns)
• features (adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions)

Let's take the word create. Underneath this word is the experience of something being created, of a creation even, or of the creator. All of these things are invoked from the underlying experience of this creation experience.

So these words are all aspects of the underlying experience of this concept:

term	form
create	action
creation	object
creates	present action
created	past action
will create	future action
creating	process action
creative	object feature
creatively	action feature
creator	action provider
creatable	action ability feature
creatability	action ability
creativeness	action possession quality
creativity	action possession ability
creativities	action possession ability collection
recreate	repetition action
co-create	concurrency action
creating	continuity action
creating	action object (i.e. the creating)
created	completion action
creation's	possesion object
creationism	object belief
autocreate	self performance action
be created	completion experience action

Notice that all forms (right column) are nouns. I would like to model all word forms like this.

What are other variants of create like these?

Other examples of structures for which we can have words include:

meaning
past tense "-ed" like "created"
complete state "-ed"
past participle "-ed"
progress "-ing"
state of action "-ing" (gerund)
possesive ("the bird's food")
possesive plural ("the birds' food")
x effect/result
x event
x game
x process
x system
x force
x essence
x nature, having the nature of (-ivity, -ity, -ance)
state of being (-dom)
the state of being x (-acy, -ness, -ship)
period of x (-hood)
one who does x
one who receives x
x like
emanating x
practice of focusing on x (-ism)
belief in x
pertaining to x (pleasantry)
study or science of (-ology)
it's a tool (zipper)
the nature of doing x (-ence)
featuring x
x oriented
formal x
the model of the action ("the transform", "the create")
disease (-osis)
thing (hatchling)
ability (-ability)
x society
-ableness
shaped
language (-ese)
capable of being (-able)
having some aspects of (-ish)
full of (-full)
less of (-less)
very much of (-some)
reminiscent of (-esque)
more (-er)
most (-est)
over (overburden)
resembling (-istic)
relates to (affectional)
hating/fearing/resisting (-phobia)
containing
future tense like "will create"
different
opposite (anti)
self (auto-)
undo
exceed (super)
mesh (inter-)
same (sym-)
repeat
equal (iso-)
distance (tele-)
again (re-)
partial (semi-)
somewhat (pseudo-)
thing about the thing (meta-)
x generating
general (infinitive "to")
there
here
ever
place x
land x
small
large
probable
right (now)
right (correct)
consequence
indeed
-ize

Identifying Experiences in Other Languages

Each language on Earth has different ways of encapsulating experiences. Some choose to give words to certain forms, and other languages choose to give words to different forms. No language seems to have words for every form, and often use multiple words to cover the full spectrum (like will create).

What we want to do is identify the base "experience" being represented by a word in a language, along with the "form" that experience is encapsulated into.

entry
  experience
  form

In many languages, some of these forms (like past, present, future tenses), can be automatically determined based on the pattern the word falls into. So we don't need to manually write out each form in that case. We only need to write out the forms of the words that either:

• Stand alone as different concepts (create vs. creator)
• Can't be derived automatically using a system (pharmacy, which is really medicine place, or object place as a form).

Finding Base Words in a Language

A simple concept revolving around the "create experience" has dozens of possible extensions into words in English. In other languages you might have words for other creation variants as well, in addition to the possible easily derivable inflections.

This means that there are potentially dozens or hundreds of words which are possible to derive from a base experience.

What we need to do, then, is identify all the important base words in each language, from which we can derive the variants, in a straightforward manner. There are only (to my estimate) about 6,000 possible base words necessary to be extremely fluent in a language. Even learning about 4,000 will be good enough to understand most stuff.

From there we can build derived words, compound words, inflected words, and multi-word terms, to reach hundreds of thousands of single words, not to mention millions of multi-word terms. But the foundation is only up to roughly 6,000 base words, which I'd like to identify.

The way to do this is to look for the lowest-level forms, primarily one of these 5 types:

• action (create)
• object (creation)
• feature (not in English)
• action feature (creatively)
• object feature (creative)

Just need to pick one to start with, ideally the action or object, or otherwise a feature. For example, the colors (green, purple, etc.) are object features (adjectives) at the foundation.

This means we can create a spreadsheet like this:

experience	context	term	form
create		create	action
create		creation	object
...
tear	drop	tear	object
tear	drop	tear	action
...

In the "experience" column we put the English word from the tune spreadsheet. Here, "context" is only necessary if it exists in the tune spreadsheet.

You can put noun/verb/adjective/adverb/preposition in the "form" column if it's easier for you, and I can translate it on the other end.

The "term" column will be filled out with your language's terms.

bram (create experience)
bram kiq (create action) = brami
bram kaq (creation object) = brama
bram kuq (creative feature) = bramu
kiq bram kuq (creative action feature) kiqyabramu
kaq bram kuq (creative object feature)
bram zek kaq = bramyazeka