I'm working on this. It is far from complete. Maybe it isn't even good. But it is as of right now. I'm thinking a computer program that you can enter words and their meanings into. Like everyone can do it, online probably. And it sort of collates the various meanings and spits out some sort of resultant definition that sort of lists or integrates or creates inflections on some sort of original meaning.
Imagine urban dictionary, but like way more responsive to edits and cleaner. I don't really have point for this except that language moves a lot and it is impossible to track. But this could maybe give a little insight. Like maybe the program could have a limit to how different a meaning can get before breaking into meaning 1 and meaning 2. And then you could sort of watch a word split into 4, 5 or more meanings as it move through the people who speak it.
Language in motion and shit.
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