• Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        15 hours ago

        you learn just enough linguistics to make a language skeleton with consistent names that don’t sound like 1) english but not or 2) what an english person thinks language X sounds like where X is Arabic for people in an arid climate, etc. this is much less complex than making an entire language with a full enough dictionary to express complex thoughts and grammatical rules just to have names for places