https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery63.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday, we cover one of the weird and wonderful languages of Papua New Guinea. It turns out to be surprisingly not so weird, but there’s still quite a few things in it to inspire conlangers. Do check out the crazy verbs though — that bit is… Read more »
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Conlangery #62: Practicum — Anaphora and Co-reference
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery62.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we tackle a big grammar and discourse topic: anaphora and co-referentiality. We go through a list of options you have for cleaning up ambiguities and keeping your discourse coherent. Just don’t throw them all into the same conlang. Top of Show Greeting: Minhast Links and… Read more »
Conlangery #61: amman îar
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery61.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we cover the monumental and yet incomplete amman îar, a heavily Tolkien-inspired language that nevertheless manages to have its own flavor. Top of Show Greeting: Uskra Featured Conlang: amman îar Feedback: Email from FE:
Conlangery #60: Syllable and Word Shapes
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery60.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreSo, for various reasons we have now changed the format of the show. Now we will be doing only one topic per show, alternating weeks between discussion topics and featured conlangs. We hope that this addresses the issues some people have had with show length while… Read more »
Conlangery #59: Loan Words
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery59.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we take some time to talk to you about a conworldy topic: loan words in your conlang. What words are likely to be borrowed? What kinds of situations cause borrowing? And how does grammar work for loan words? Also, we talk about Kebreni, our second… Read more »
Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery58.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we talk all about the middle voice and the many things that that covers, as well as give you all sorts of options to make your own creative use of this feature. We also have a featured natlang today that has very interesting features… Read more »
Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery57.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAfter a short update on George’s grad school situation and some musing over our tagline, we get to talking about the very complex interactions that animacy and agency can have with the rest of your grammar. Then we talk about Interlingua, a very boring auxlang that… Read more »
Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery56.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreDavid Peterson joins us for a wonderful Supersize episode where we talk all about growing your lexicon, from generating roots to creating realistic polysemy and semantic fields. Also, we finally feature an obscure little language we’ve wanted to talk about for a while 😛 Top of… Read more »
Conlangery #55: Practicum — Getting Rid of Tense
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery55.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe give you a podcast today about how you can do without tense, and what other things in the language can be used to fill in the gaps. Also, we have special guest Jeffrey Jones on to talk about his conlang. Top of Show: Sheewan Links… Read more »
Conlangery #54: Reduplication
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery54.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday is a big show where we tackle the topic of reduplication, something we think more conlangers should employ. Then we talk about a wonderfully crazy click langauge called Sandawe — and it’s natural! Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr Links and Resources Iyo Grammar (see p…. Read more »
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