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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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Is That Sort of an Ambiguity Reducing Device?

William: I was looking through this a few days ago and I was trying to find You have these little particles that start with w and y And I noticed some of them get paired in ways that are very interesting. Is that sort of an ambiguity reducing device? Right. That allows me to have proper nouns that don't have to follow the morphology of the language Uh-huh. There's one construct which is why you'll Which essentially works like the relativizer or excuse me the dependent clause marker.

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