Conlangery SHORTS #06: Borrowing Cultural Concepts

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort06.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge talks about how we borrow words for cultural concepts, even when the concept isn’t all that alien to our culture. Links: Xenia Guanxi (关系) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)

Conlangery SHORTS #01: Date and Time in Tagalog

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe didn’t get a full episode out this week, but George didn’t want to have a week with nothing at all, so he “reads”* the date in Tagalog, then goes on a ramble about loanwords a bit. Top of Show Greeting: Lingwa de Planeta Text of that… Read more »