Previously, I attended a lecture whose speaker came from a small country in Africa.

As I recall, he was trying to make an translation software between their mother mother tongue and English, e.t.c.

He said that the most important problem is the asymmetry postulate of amount of vocabulary.

In short, the vocabularies of the minority language dictionary is just one tenth of those of English

I asked him a question after the lecture.

Ebata:"I am interested to hear about the less numbers of vocabulary in your country. I don't mean to be rude, but I want know the reason. Now I have two ideas.

(1)Representational power of your native language

or

(2)Your native language can express a variety of meaning using complex combination of the vocabulary.

Speaker:"Both are incorrect. The reason is simple, "a development of electronic dictionary is delayed"

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"Quite so", I think.

Wherever human beings live, I think, the concept coming into being, should be almost same naturally.

For an extreme example, I cannot bring a language without a concept of "anger" to mind.

On the other hand, I also think that people might be happy in the country where they live.

Especially, for a person like me who is not good at "anger control"