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Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy

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What's the Difference Between English and Dictionary?

Nary: You kind of have to wade through it because a whole lot of the time you'll look up a word and like everybody just arrived it from something that meant that word way back in some, like higher France. And then I will go to dictionary and I don't know if this is this is what you do. But my my thing with the dictionary is I'll read the English etymology, maybe I'll click back through to like put it into your pen and I will go down and find the sense of the word in the translations that I want. Nary: It's very spotty. Get more information than less studied languages. The Arabic one is pretty good.

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