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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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What Is the Meaning of the Particle and What Does It Mean?

The particle we has a number of different functions which like to an l1 english speaker is going to seem very surprising. The one thing you don't find I guess is Nouns always ending in the same uh letter or letter combination Sure sure. So for example, when you challenge someone Okay, tell me exactly what at does mean. Mm-hmm. And then we get to this other one of my favorite words in chakwan, which is wu Which simply means With respect to um, I don't mean respect like And attitude but in relation to or concerned with it's sort of the filler Preposition that doesn't have a a clear cut meaning and in english We

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