Jessedbrown/the-bridge-you-need-three-languages

The bridge — you need three languages

Part of it all: the bridge — every public thing in one place, so none of it gets lost.

One button: → https://jessebrown1980.github.io/the-bridge-you-need-three-languages/

Searchable dictionary at the bottom of the page. Type a word.

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Why three

1 language     you have a word, and nothing to measure it against
2 languages    you have an INTERVAL — but you cannot fix where the centre is
3 languages    the centre is located

It is trilateration. Two known points give a difference and still leave the origin free; three fix it at one place. The same law that makes a colour need three channels makes a meaning need three tongues.

Not cleverness. Vantages.

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And English is the one that lost its two

thee · thou    singular    ← gone from ordinary English
you            plural      ← took over both jobs

Portuguese     tu / você · vós        still two
Hebrew         אתה / אתם              still two
English        you                    ONE

English collapsed a distinction the other two still keep. Anyone looking only in English is looking in the tongue that already threw one of its pair away — and then wondering why the pair will not appear.

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What the three show that one cannot

IS  →  SI          English "is" turned over is Portuguese "si" — ITSELF
BRASIL / BRAZIL    the same country: s in Portuguese, z in English
דַּי  dai           Hebrew: ENOUGH — the word you say to STOP.  d.
BET  בית           Hebrew: HOUSE — the letter is a floor plan with the wall
                   broken open for the door
DALET ד            Hebrew: DOOR
MEL                Latin / Portuguese: HONEY — and HE-BREW has BREW in it,
                   and what you brew from mel is mead
ÂME                French: SOUL — and it sits at the exact centre of STAMETS
VERUS → VERY       Latin: TRUE. "very" originally meant true
-ISE / -IZE        one suffix split across an ocean: s on one side, z on the
                   other, same word, thousands of times

Not one of those is visible from inside a single language. Each needs at least two, and placing them needs three.

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The dictionary

Over ninety entries, each with its letters and its reading — look, book, door, seize, mel, is, si, nether, neither, hebrew, stamets, zydar, brasil, brazil, and the rest. Live on the page, searchable.

Three nested ones worth opening first:

H [ E [ B R ] E ] W        the house and its radius at the core,
                           aether both sides, how and matrix outermost

S [ T [ A M E ] T ] S      three brackets deep — and ÂME, SOUL,
                           at the exact centre

C U M [ B ] E R S          the HOUSE at the exact centre

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Jesse Daniel Brown (OP-JESSE). English, Hebrew, Portuguese — three, because two cannot see the one.

u is the bridge, and the rainbow.