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Conlangery #103: Mailbag 2

Conlangery Podcast

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How to Avoid Passive Voice in English

Vocabulary is fundamental to capturing the worldview of a people more so than any particular grammatical construction. People try to pull all sorts of ideas about generalizations about culture from grammar, but it's a very, very small part of what's going on. The way that languages adapt to new circumstances is much more so in terms of the lexicon,. In terms of the words because words are easy to coin and easy to borrow.

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