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 »
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Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages
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
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?
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
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
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 »
Conlangery #43: Adpositions
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery43.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday, we spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about adpositions, creating an hour-long discussion out of something William thought would be short. We also have an extra special featured conlang today — one hand crafted specifically for this podcast! Top of Show Greeting: Opaki Aŋkuati Links… Read more »
Conlangery #42: Practicum — Getting Rid of Adjectives
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery42.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe introduce you to a new host: Mike Lentine. Then we cover the different ways you can get rid of adjectives or at least fuzz the distinctions between them and other word classes. Also, we try to figure out what Lojban is all about. Top of… Read more »
This is the FINAL Album Art (at least for now)
Ok, this is absolutely, positively the FINAL version of the new Conlangery album art. I have tinkered with this thing enough and I’m afraid that if I do anything more to it I will simply screw it up beyond repair. Unless I decide again to completely change the aesthetic a year from now, or I… Read more »
New Album Art and Site Banner
Conlangery has some new stuff. I wanted to move away from the conlang flag design and come up with something a little more unique for our logo-type stuff, so I solicited some conlanging communities for translations of “Conlangery” into their conscripts. The result is new album art and a new site banner. The contibutions I… Read more »
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