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Conlangery #46: Conlanging for Conworlds

Conlangery Podcast

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Is There a Way to Make a New Word?

Linguistics professor says he tries to think about what kind of culture the not V came from. If there's something that is somewhat alien to that con world, I think about if there's either a way that they can make that by using that what words they have and coming up with a new word for it internally. So we have a language like Japanese, which is very, very happy to adopt foreign words. English is pretty happy to adopted foreign words. Navajo, on the other hand, is tremendously resistant and coined its own words for things. The not be word for computer is metal brain and Chinese is electric brain.

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