https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery22.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge’s father has pragmatics issues, but anyway … pronouns! (Almost) every language is going to have pronouns of some sort. We talk all kinds — closed-class, open-class, free, clitic, and even having pronouns for bizarrely specific people. Also, we review Baranxe’i Links and Resources: Swahili concord (alternate) Mixtec Xavante… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Conlangery #21: Poetry
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery21.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreBianca’s out for this episode, so William and I take the opportunity to talk about something she hates so much she wouldn’t let us have a show about it: poetry! Figure out how to choose good poetic devices for your conlang, and how history can affect… Read more »
Conlangery #20: Ideophones
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery20.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe talk about ideophones, a fun, fun class of words that describe a general feeling. We also review a language that’s not quite an elflang, so William doesn’t quite hate it. Top of Show Greeting: Dothraki Links and Resources The Ideophone Ideophone definition Japanese ideophones Daniel… Read more »
We Need Some Help
A question to all you listeners. With the holidays coming up, we’ve been considering whether or not to go on a holiday break or something. So I thought I’d put up a poll to ask people what they would prefer us to do over the holidays (provided we get to them 😛 ). The fact… Read more »
Conlangery #19: Role-Marking
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery19.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe puzzle through the very difficult and complex subject of thematic roles and role marking, and then review the awesomely complicated Okuna. Top of Show Greeting: Standard Telèmor Links and Resources: Fiat Lingua paper Chemehuevi (predicate marking langauge) Lexical Semantics Featured Conlang: Okuna (formerly known as Tokana)
Conlangery #18: Mood
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery18.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe finish out our Holy Trinity of Verbs with Mood — a slippery, slippery subject if there ever was one. Of course, after trying to make some sense out of that, we move on to review South Eresian Top of Show Greeting: tzoi Rescources: Wikipedia on… Read more »
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