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We 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
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Featured Conlang: Tmaśareʔ
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Since you always want to know, I’ve just started a sketch of an analytic language, and have been trying to think of how I might create an aspect that’s realized lexically rather than morphosyntactically. You’re podcast on politeness and formality was pretty much exactly what I needed, now I just have to figure out the exact levels and derivations.Keep these coming, they’re very enlightening, even to someone already relatively experienced in the subjects you discuss.
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We 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
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Alternate 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 listen, because we are going through the gamut of profane and vile words in various languages for ideas, and we simply can’t dance around the nasty ones. Also, we review Lé by Mark Rosenfelder. Plus, stick around after the end music for a hilariously NSFW mashup.
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- Steven Pinker on Profanity 1 2
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We 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.
Classical Tailancan by Dewrad
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Featured Conlang: Kozea
- Kozea Daily Videos: 1 2 3 4
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Today 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 noun phrases. Also, we talk about Ayeri, a wonderfully well-developed conlang by Carsten Becker
Top of Show Greeting: South Eresian
Featured Conlang: Ayeri
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We talk about how to organize your conlang, from organizing your notes to writing the grammar and lexicon, and what software is out there to help you. Also, some stupid example sentences, and a little old language called Alurhsa.
Pre-show intro: Ancaron language by ZBB’s Lyhoko Leaci.
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We talk about kinship terminology: what kinds of kinship schemes exist in reality, how they are related to family structure and marriage customs, and where you can find resources to give you ideas about these concepts. We also talk a little about Tepa (which I mispronounce a couple of times in the episode, it should be [teva]), a conlang from someone who studies American languages and decided to make one.
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George says: check out the LCS Podcast interview of Sheri Wells-Jensen. Meanwhile, on this side of the conlanging podosphere (literally, the other side, there are only two podcasts), we talk a little about how you can fill out that lexicon with words. And after that we talk about a language whose creator apparantly decided not to bother too much with words.
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Featured Conlang: Toki Pona
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