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Conlangery #23: Alien Languages

Conlangery Podcast

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How to Write a Structured Sentence

The problem with using smell is that smell just diffuses into the air. So constructing any kind of structure, building any kind of structured sentence is going to be difficult because you can't have a time linear production. For that to work, you would have to evolve an enormous chemical arsenal. You need a huge... You need a lot of different pheromones. Not just one, I mean with arms, you already got your arms already there waiting to do things, you can wave them around to send messages. Yeah. That's true. And even if you decide that you don't need a timelinear production, you just send out different puffs of chemicals in some discernible sense

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