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Conlangery #133: Language and Identity

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The Importance of Naming Groups

There's names of groups change over time and sometimes that reflects changes in social values or how the group is perceived. Just giving a name to a group also like just makes society more aware of that group. There are words that are used, but then it's also like a sense of like reclaiming words within a community as well. You do need names for people in your con worlds and you need to think about what they call themselves versus what other people call them? And what does that say about the history of how groups came into contact?Yeah. I think that's mirror neurons as well. With the empathic stuff in the brain. Yeah.

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