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Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon

Conlangery Podcast

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What Is Esperanto?

So much of language learning is taking place in the behavior of individual words. And we have this, unfortunately it's more gung ho promoters talk about its simplicity, but that's complete bunkers. It's exactly the same as you get in Murray Scross's giant list. In some really good matlang bilingual dictionaries they'll have listings of certain idiomatic phrases. So ancient Greek, it might have words for loud and quiet,. I can't think of them offhand, but you don't say that. You should tell us that with the word big or you probably want the definition in both entries just for clarity.

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