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Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy

Conlangery Podcast

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I, I'm in My Kitchen, Is That a Verb to Break With Frayed Edges?

I, uh, for example, means to break with frayed edges and hoo-ba is to break with clean edges. Once you have these two words then, you know, maybe this sort of verb could also be used for, uh, whittling wood. And from there, something a little bit less concrete, like needling some point or, or wearing someone down, leaving them with Frayed edges. The same thing happens with your verb to snap with clean edges; that word evolved into "robot" I was thinking about how the two resulting pieces were intact in my kitchen when I came up with 'robot'

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