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>Suppose, for example, that most languages have a word for the color "red".
>It is quite possible that some other language might place the dividing line
>between red and orange in a different place along the spectrum and have
>words for red-orange, and yellow-orange, but no word at all for what we
>would call "pure" red.

In this case I suggest to create global symbol representations for

global_color_red
global_color_orange
global_color_yellow
global_color_red-orange
global_color_yellow-orange

So all will be just represented as different symbols.

I think examining more examples like this will point out many sources of
misunderstanding.

But how is the ratio of words that have equivalents in another language to
the words that have no equivalent?

Is it 10000 : 1, 1000 : 1 or 100 : 1  ?

How much knowledge can be expressed in a natural language that can be also
expressed in another natural language?
How much is the rest?

I don't know, but I am shure about the following: The knowledge that can be
commonly expressed is huge.

-- Stefan