HERE ARE 7 ENGLISH WORDS

Above
Acquire
Agape
Alder
Alive
Allot
Ancestor

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one of the more difficult conlanging problems is acquiring good lists of words with a reasonable semantic distribution so you don’t wind up with 50 words for travel but can’t talk about what you ate for breakfast, or whatever

so anyway i have some lists of words

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all the conlangers on my feed: “fuck i don’t have a way to express ‘agape’”

@Lady@cat.family it's not exactly the same but along similar lines ... when I visited Greece I realized I knew words for concepts like victory and "the people", and obscure things like how an ox plows a field, but had no idea how to ask directions.

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