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How native speakers pronounce “affixes”

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A really useful innovation that helps with derivation is the development of augmentative and diminutives. These are special affixes that can attach to nouns to amplify or diminish their meaning. The augmentative may, also imply that the noun is scary or dangerous in some way, whereas the diminutive may

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

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A really useful innovation that helps with derivation is the development of augmentative and diminutives. These are special affixes that can attach to nouns to amplify or diminish their meaning. The augmentative may, also imply that the noun is scary or dangerous in some way, whereas the diminutive may

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

root words no verbs verbs are formed by root words no verbs verbs are formed by combining a root word with affixes there combining a root word with affixes there

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