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 »
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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:
Conlangery #22: Pronouns
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 »
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 »
Conlangery #17: Aspect
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery17.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThe second in our TAM series, we spend a good deal of time on the basic perfective/imperfective distinction as well as talk a little about how you can go totally crazy with many, many more aspects. Then we review the incredible Siwa. Top of show greeting:… Read more »
Conlangery #16: Tense
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery16.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThe first of our episodes of the holy verbal trinity of TAM. We initially planned to do Tense and Aspect as one episode, but the more we talked about tense the more complicated it became, so the aspect discussion is pushed to next week. We also… Read more »
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