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Conlangery Shorts 32: Lexember Themes

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How to Use a Theme for Lexember Words

Using a theme for your Lexember words is a particularly good way to encourage more Onomasiological thinking in the process. You can find interesting ways of looking at lexicons onomasologically when looking at smaller thematic subsets of lexicons, such as kinship terms or color term. The word uncle has a meaning all of its own, but it's also part of a network of related terms that all define relationships between each other and with the ego. It might be easy to take a list of words and make your conlang-if equivalent to them, but if you are picking a theme to riff off of, now you have to start deciding what words you are going to work with

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