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Conlangery #38: Derivational Morphology

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How to Derivate Words in English

For beginners, I would actually recommend taking some time and looking at Esperanto's derivational system. It's useful to think about some of these subtleties that get masked in English. Sultezzo is the quality of being stupid, whereas stultagio is a particular instance or example of stupidity. We allow our native language to smuggle in lexical boundaries that maybe we don't intend to do.

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