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Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy

Conlangery Podcast

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How Much Detail Do You Add to Each Entry?

The word pudunzuo means primarily to play, but it has 19 senses. "I try to present as much detail as I possibly can," he says of his writing process. It's interesting to see the etymology of the word play in English, and the different meanings that it's for bears have had throughout the different proto languages and in old English. Sometimes there's a more complex action like plague or plague which was also used to move rapidly without talking.

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