private language

Noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, language.

Japanese Meaning

私的な言語：個人または限られた集団でのみ使用され、外部に公開されない言語を指す。 / 個人的な言語：個人の内面や特定の環境でのみ通用する独自の言語的表現を意味する。

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She developed a private language with her sister to pass secret notes.

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彼女は姉と秘密のメモをやり取りするために私的な言語を考案した。

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Sense（1）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, language.

[T]hey could not say much because of his presence. But it did not greatly matter, for their past was now rich enough to have given them a private language; …

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Sense（2）

(philosophy) A language which expresses one's inner thoughts, feelings, or experiences but which cannot be used for communication, since it is known to and understandable by only one person—the existence of which was famously argued by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to be impossible.

A private language was not merely a language contingently spoken by one person. . . . A private language was meant to be be semantically and necessarily private: one whose symbols could by definition be "understood only by the speaker".

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private languages

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