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Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon

Conlangery Podcast

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The Word Sweet, the Taste Sweet

The things that the word sweet, the taste sweet can metaphorically extend to in languages is quite huge. I think it's useful to think about word meaning is not some point, but as a cloud. Every language is gonna also have little bits, or sometimes quite large bits that extend beyond what we're used to in our native languages. That division can happen multiple ways, right?

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