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Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon

Conlangery Podcast

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Why Words Take Multiple Meanings

In Dothraki, the words for color are shallow and deep. In Greek, megas is what you use to say something's loud or quiet. So even though you might see languages with this tremendous range of meanings, how the words actually get used removes that ambiguity.

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