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Comment author: jimrandomh 29 November 2015 11:10:12PM 2 points [-]

How about affixes for central vs noncentral usage of concepts? For example, you might make a rule that you can stick -cen on any content word to mean something is a central usage of the word and its meaning has not been stretched, or -sep to mean that it's figurative or the meaning has been stretched or there's a caveat.