https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery53.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAfter a short update on rain in Wisconsin and ankle injuries, we try to make sense of the topic of topicalization and topic prominent languages. Then we talk about Talmit, a language created by active Conlangery listener and commenter Roman Rausch Top of Show Greeting: Grewa… Read more »
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Conlangery #52: Conlangery at the Movies
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery52.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreFor our 52nd episode we decided to take a break from our usual format and just have a good time talking about movies and TV shows — with a conlang twist. So, here we are listening to a bunch of conlang (and pseudo-conlang) dialogue from various… Read more »
Conlangery #51: Language History
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery51.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe go a little out of our comfort zone and talk about language history — particularly as involves the diachronic method of creating a conlang. Then we move on to some talk about a language called Dimana Lokud. Top of Show Greeting: Oupe Links and Resources:… Read more »
Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery50.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s bonus-size episode we have Carsten Becker on to join in a great discussion on the technologies of writing: implements, media, formats, and even literacy itself. Then we have an invigorating discussion with Larry Sulky about his “artlangy-engelang” Qakwan, among other things. Top of Show… Read more »
Conlangery #49: The Noun Phrase
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery49.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we have Jim Henry on the show to talk about his long-term labor of love, the “engelangy artlang” gjâ-zym-byn. But first we talk in great detail about noun phrases and many of the things you can do with them. Top of Show Greeting: Qakwan Links… Read more »
Conlangery #48: Designing a Sound System
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery48.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAfter a discussion of George’s recent consumption of bear meat, we get to talking about designing your sound system, a topic we meant to talk about in episode 29 but somehow didn’t end up saying much about. After a long discussion about that topic, we feature… Read more »
Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery47.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we talk about something we wish more conlangers would think about creating — isolating and analytic languages. It seems that virtually everyone wants some polysynthetic madness or at least a complex verb paradigm, but there are ways to make isolation and analytic syntax interesting, we… Read more »
Conlangery #46: Conlanging for Conworlds
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery46.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreCheck out the Serpent’s Tongue kickstarter I mentioned at the top of the show! After teasing Mike a bit about his trip to an Anime convention, we get down to business on how to make your conlang fit into a conworld. Then we cover an interesting… Read more »
Conlangery #45: Questions
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery45.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we talk about the many peculiarities of how questions can be handled in your language. Join us as we explore not only polar and content questions, but also talk about rhetorical and conjectural ones as well, with some insight on how different languages handle… Read more »
Conlangery #44: Negation
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery44.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreFirst of all, George was on something called FourCast a bit ago. You might enjoy it. Also, CNN is doing a special on Dothraki on April 8. But the meat of this podcast is all about negation: how to deal with scope, negative concord, and a… Read more »
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