Conlangery #48: Designing a Sound System

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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

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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

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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 »

Can we get some suggestions?

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As happens every so often, we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel on conlangs as of late, so I thought I would appeal to the audience to help us find some gems to feature on the show.  We’re looking for linguistically sophisticated conlangs with good documentation.  It doesn’t have to be a whole book, of… Read more »

Conlangery #45: Questions

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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

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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 »