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This week, we talk all about the middle voice and the many things that that covers, as well as give you all sorts of options to make your own creative use of this feature. We also have a featured natlang today that has very interesting features as well as some hilarious crackpot historical theories around it.
Top of Show Greeting: Fäesek
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Featured NATLANG: Burushaski (Wikipedia page)
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After a short update on George’s grad school situation and some musing over our tagline, we get to talking about the very complex interactions that animacy and agency can have with the rest of your grammar. Then we talk about Interlingua, a very boring auxlang that appears to be comfortably readable by anyone who speaks a Romance language.
Top of Show Greeting: Kiswona
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Featured Conlang: Interlingua (another link)
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Dear George, William and Mike,
First of all, let me say, what a great show! I just posted a 5 star review on iTunes. I started three weeks ago and listened to every episode. I wanted to bring to your attention the unwritten rule in podcasting not to go beyond 82 minutes. No one can burn your episode onto CD and give it to a friend if it’s longer than that! Let me be sure to emphasize to coolness of what yo do.
Thanks again,
Robert Murphy
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David Peterson joins us for a wonderful Supersize episode where we talk all about growing your lexicon, from generating roots to creating realistic polysemy and semantic fields. Also, we finally feature an obscure little language we’ve wanted to talk about for a while 😛
Top of Show Greeting: Oltengo
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Featured Conlang: Dothraki (fan site, David’s blog)
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We give you a podcast today about how you can do without tense, and what other things in the language can be used to fill in the gaps. Also, we have special guest Jeffrey Jones on to talk about his conlang.
Top of Show: Sheewan
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Featured Conlang: K’tlê
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Today is a big show where we tackle the topic of reduplication, something we think more conlangers should employ. Then we talk about a wonderfully crazy click langauge called Sandawe — and it’s natural!
Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr
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Featured NATLANG: Sandawe (Wikipedia)
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After a short update on rain in Wisconsin and ankle injuries, we try to make sense of the topic of topicalization and topic prominent languages. Then we talk about Talmit, a language created by active Conlangery listener and commenter Roman Rausch
Top of Show Greeting: Grewa
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Featured Conlang: Talmit (LCC talk, pdf grammar, more stuff)
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For our 52nd episode we decided to take a break from our usual format and just have a good time talking about movies and TV shows — with a conlang twist. So, here we are listening to a bunch of conlang (and pseudo-conlang) dialogue from various properties and talking a little about what we like and don’t like. Enjoy!
Top of Show Greeting: Doon
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Bonus — a quiz we found on fictional languages.
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We go a little out of our comfort zone and talk about language history — particularly as involves the diachronic method of creating a conlang. Then we move on to some talk about a language called Dimana Lokud.
Top of Show Greeting: Oupe
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Featured Conlang: Dimana Lokud
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In today’s bonus-size episode we have Carsten Becker on to join in a great discussion on the technologies of writing: implements, media, formats, and even literacy itself. Then we have an invigorating discussion with Larry Sulky about his “artlangy-engelang” Qakwan, among other things.
Top of Show Greeting: Treyll
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Featured Conlang: Qakwan
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This week, we have Jim Henry on the show to talk about his long-term labor of love, the “engelangy artlang” gjâ-zym-byn. But first we talk in great detail about noun phrases and many of the things you can do with them.
Top of Show Greeting: Qakwan
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Featured Conlang: gjâ-zym-byn
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