Re: USAGE: THEORY/USAGE: RE: [CONLANG] A discourse on

And Rosta scripsit:

> John Fisher, of Elet Anta, whose presence on this list is missed.
Indeed.

> madder (brown) : madder (more mad), gladden (iris) : gladden
> (make glad), lagging (insulation) : lagging (dawdling), possibly
> can (verb) : can (noun).
None of these contrast for me.  How do you say "lagging" (being
imprisoned)?  Not a GA word, of course.  The last example brings up
the joke about "we eat all we [k&n], and what we [k&nt], we [k&n]",
which the (archetypally stupid, as usually in jokes) Brit mangles
into "We eat all we can, and what we can't, we put up in tins"!

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