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@wylfcenMay 10
English is full of “lexical gaps”: words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words↓
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from Wiktionary: etymology tree of "poggers"
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Many of them are, it's a pretty cool language! I didn't know about the family one!
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Woah. Who knew? The 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 emoji is a ligature. So you can do this in your Chrome console. #mindblown
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