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>hasn’t it been suggested that the internals of google translate and similar systems have effectively constructed such a meta-language?

No, Google Translate and other state of the art machine translation software rely on large corpuses of linguistic data from which they make statistical inference. They do not have a 'centralized metalanguage' which ontologizes meaning in the manner described by OP.



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