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Conlangery #91: Srínawésin

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The Language of Smells

There's a nice discussion in one of the sections on the semantics of adjectives or adjective like things. The word, by primary, I mean the word red, spurs fundamentally and completely to color. We have no terms for smell that match that. All are basically all our terms for smell sort of compare the smell to something else. Right. Compares it to some other concept rather than actually denoting the concept of the smell itself. They don't have quite the system for olfactory in the dragon language, but there are some really interesting things. In fact, what I would call aroma dakesis Really? Yeah. So, she has a word for a smell with no

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