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## Word Distinctions
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L'ewa is intended to be a logical language. One of the side effects of L'ewa
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being a logical language is that each word should have as minimal and exact of a
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meaning/function as possible. English has lots of words that cover large
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semantic spaces (like go, set, run, take, get, turn, good, etc.) without much of a
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pattern to it. I don't want this in L'ewa.
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Let's take the word "good" as an example. Off the top of my head, good can mean
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any of the following things:
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- beneficial
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- aesthetically pleasing
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- favorful taste
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- saintly (coincidentally this is the source of the idiom "God is good")
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- healthy
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I'm fairly sure there are more "senses" of the word good, but let's break these
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into their own words:
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| L'ewa | Definition |
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| firgu | is beneficial/nice to |
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| n'ixu | is aesthetically pleasing to |
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| flawo | is tasty/has a pleasant flavor to |
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| spiro | is saintly/holy/morally good to |
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| qanro | is healthy/fit/well/in good health |
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Each of these words has a very distinct and fine-grained meaning, even though
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the range is a bit larger than it would be in English. These words also differ
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from a lot of the other words in the L'ewa dictionary so far because they can
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take an object. Most of the words so far are adjective-like because it doesn't
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make sense for there to be an object attached to the color blue.
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By default, if a word that can take an object doesn't have one, it's assumed to
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be obvious from context. For example, consider the following set of sentences:
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```
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mi qa madsa lo spalo. ti flawo!
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I am eating an apple. It's delicious!
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```
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I am working at creating more words using a [Swaedish list][swaedish207].
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[swaedish207]: https://tulpa.dev/cadey/lewa/src/branch/master/words/swaedish207.csv
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