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Conlangery #118: Linguistics Databases

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Words for Bird - The Angle Brackets Bird

It's pretty common for a word to have one meaning by itself and a larger or smaller range of meanings when in compounds. This database is pretty fun. In addition to just having actual words, it does a concept thing. So if you click on the meanings tab, you'll see that it starts with a bunch of items that are in angle brackets. And those mean that the word, one example for example is bird. It means that different words for bird are polysemous with words for people who talk too much.

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