https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery26.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe talk about one of William’s pet peeves in conlang descriptions and linguistics in general: the overuse of the word “emphasis”. We start out with some very strong reccomendations against using it in phonology, and then talk about some more standard terms you might use instead… Read more »
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery25.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe have a guest on, Olle Heikilä, who we totally didn’t forget to add to the Skype call, and have a nice discussion on grammatical voice and what it’s for, what you can include, and just in general. If you believe what your English teacher taught… Read more »
Conlangery #24: Possession
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAfter some observations about the merits of Star Wars and plastic chopsticks, we tell you all kinds of stuff about possession: alienable vs inalienable, various marking strategies, “to have” and more. Oh, and we talk about Abakwi. Top of Show Greeting: rejistanian Conlang: Abakwi Feedback: Email… Read more »
We Need Help AGAIN (Another poll and some more)
Over the course of the show we have discovered something … it’s really hard to dig up good conlangs out there. Not that there aren’t plenty of conlangs out there, but a large number are ill-informed first attempts, incomplete sketches, or simply have no documentation online for us to look at. So, we have a… Read more »
Conlangery #23: Alien Languages
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery23.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe talk a little about what we like and dislike about alien languages — and what concepts we think are actually likely to work. Then we reveiw Ebisédian. Top of Show Greeting: Cardonian Conlang: Ebisédian Feedback:
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