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We are super excited to reveal that our third host for (we hope) the duration of William’s absence will be none other than David J. Peterson! Take a listen as we talk through the challenges of making an agglutinative language that isn’t depressingly boring.
Top of Show Greeting: Kihā́mmic
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Bianca joins us as we tackle a fun and wacky conlang with some serious phonological processes.
Top of Show Greeting: Neo-Simikaka
Featured Conlang: Alũbetah
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Today we have a very enlightening discussion about conceptual metaphors and how thinking about them can help you avoid a relex as well as have loads of fun in usage and translation. Also, this will be William’s last episode for a while 🙁
Top of Show Greeting: Arahau
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William is leaving (temporarily), but don’t worry, we have one more episode before he goes. Also, we talk with Eric about his lovely language Tayéin
Top of Show Greeting: Frixàð
Featured Conlang: Tayéin
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Today we tackle a very interesting typology topic: head-marking and dependant-marking. Turns out that whether your language leans one way or another affects (or depends on) a wide variety of grammatical features. Be sure to check the links below for additional info.
Top of Show Greeting: Toki Pona (translated by Vadim Fomin)
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Thought I would put out there, Conlangery episode #64 will probably publish later than usual. In my haste to move I apparently had not synced my computer to my backup service before moving. Hence, after several days of syncing my laptop up to said service, I discovered that Conlangery64_rough.aup was no where to be found. My hope is that it is, in fact, saved on my desktop computer, which will be sent to me via UPS in a few days, and I don’t end up with a “lost episode” — just a late one.
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Today, we cover one of the weird and wonderful languages of Papua New Guinea. It turns out to be surprisingly not so weird, but there’s still quite a few things in it to inspire conlangers. Do check out the crazy verbs though — that bit is quite nuts.
Top of Show Greeting: Pøplish
Featured NATLANG: Kuot
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Today we tackle a big grammar and discourse topic: anaphora and co-referentiality. We go through a list of options you have for cleaning up ambiguities and keeping your discourse coherent. Just don’t throw them all into the same conlang.
Top of Show Greeting: Minhast
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Special Mention: Talossa has been reunited
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This week we cover the monumental and yet incomplete amman îar, a heavily Tolkien-inspired language that nevertheless manages to have its own flavor.
Top of Show Greeting: Uskra
Featured Conlang: amman îar
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So, for various reasons we have now changed the format of the show. Now we will be doing only one topic per show, alternating weeks between discussion topics and featured conlangs. We hope that this addresses the issues some people have had with show length while still allowing us to have thick, meaty discussions. As such, this week’s show is all about phonotactics and how the way you allow sounds to combine into words is often more important to the overall sound of your conlang than your phoneme inventory is.
Top of Show Greeting: Khangaþyag
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