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Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy

Conlangery Podcast

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The Difference Between a Knife and a Sword

The boundaries of words are fuzzy. You shouldn't be afraid of like overlapping senses either because in real life, in real languages, the meaning of a word is not really what's in the dictionary. The meaning in people's heads is like they develop a prototype and things that are surrounding that prototype that are similar enough end up being called that word.

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