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Conlangery #127: Language Policy

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How to Create a Con World

English borrows plenty from the romance languages in terms of its academic register. And, and so if you want to go that route, you could just have people making it up on the fly. You think about where your con laying is used, what it's used for, and then you can think about do I need words for these academic topics? If you're talking about alchemy or astrophysics, does this language need all the precise terminology? Yeah. Well, it's not that the language doesn't have it. It's that the language first is not used in those kinds of discussions in the, in academia and stuff. Therefore the language doesn’t end up having those words

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