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 »
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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 »
Conlangery #15: Getting out of Creative Ruts
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery15.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe throw out some tips for how to kick certain creative habits you might have developed as you create languages. Then we review the Akana language Tmaśareʔ. Top of Show greeting: Myonian Links and Resources Spokan Hupa Featured Conlang: Tmaśareʔ Feedback: Okuno Zankoku (email) Since you always want… Read more »
Conlangery #14: Verb Framing and Postural Verbs
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery14.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe give you some info on verb framing — that is the typology of how languages describe motion, as well as some discussion of postural verbs, aka positionals, and all the wondrous variety you can create with them. Also, we review [k]enyani. Greeting: Gomain by Zach Hart Links… Read more »
Conlangery #13: Profanity, Insults, and Taboo Words (NSFW)
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery13.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAlternate Titles: AND … tits, Bugger is for Sodomy, Dog Japan’d, When “Damn it” Just Won’t Cut it, What Did My 16th Great-Grandfather Do to You? Today we talk all about taboo words. Make sure you have your headphones in or are by yourself when you… Read more »
Conlangery #12: Personal Names
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery12.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe have no Will today, but we do have Adam Skoog from Sweden. After a good discussion about personal names where I continually refer to Chinese naming conventions, we talk with Adam about his wonderful language Kozea and the kooky videos he has created with it…. Read more »
Conlangery #11: Nonconfigurationality
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery11.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we talk about nonconfigurationality, that is what languages do with word order when it’s not needed to show semantic roles. William regales us with tales of Navajo animacy-based word order, Nahuatl shifting its numerals around, and Ancient Greek’s confounding tendency to separate adjectives from their… Read more »
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