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Today we interview conlanger Britton Watkins about his journey from natlang enthusiasm through Vulcan and Na’vi fandom to creating a conlang for his and his husband’s ‘nano-budget’ movie.
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Bianca tells us a little about the verbal system of Uskra, one of her conlangs, and how she played with giving grammatical forms multiple uses.
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George and William have a discussion of those times when the subject isn’t in the case you might expect it to be in.
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Today we talk about a bunch of wacky and wonderful auxlangs.
Links and Resources:
- Real Character
- Caracteristica universalis
- aUI (Wikipedia, original site, a not-so-friendly review)
- Dnghu
- Babm
- Blissymbolics (official site, Wikipedia)
- Solresol
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We go over politeness theory and discuss its implications for creating interesting conlangs and concultural interactions.
Top of Show Greeting: Zametulian
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Today, William is gone, but we have Christophe Grandsire-Koevets on as a special guest to discuss one of his favorite natlang inspirations, Basque.
Top of Show Greeting: Palethian
Links and Resources:
- Theories on Basque’s origins (Spanish)
- Grammar of Basque
- Some useful charts and such (French)
- Another grammar
- Four Wikipedia pages: main, grammar, verbs, dialects
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We go over the basic premise of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and it’s (limited) usefulness to naturalistic conlanging, with a couple of tangents here and there.
Top of Show Greeting: Danish (translated by Samuel Kilsholm)
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Today we talk about a language of dragons. It’s really, really hard to pronounce.
Top of show Greeting: Jesesç
Srínawésin grammar and dictionary:
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We resurrect the podcast with an episode that’s all answering listener feedback. We hope to keep this thing going for a good long time.
Top of Show Greeting: French (translation and recording by Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets)
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