Conlangery Has a Bouba

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery165.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreJake and Miles of Let’s have a Bouba come on to talk about conlanging on YouTube.

Carl Buck on Conlanging for Halo

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery164.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreCarl Buck joins us to discuss his work as co-creator of Sangheili on Halo as well as his own personal conlanging work. Links:

Jessie Peterson’s Conlang Year

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery163.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreI interview Jessie Peterson of  @LangTimeStudio  about her Conlang Year project, as well as her other conlanging education and promotion projects. See Conlang Year here: https://www.quothalinguist.com/

Interview with Artifexian

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery162.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreI talked to  Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube.

Cursed Conlanging with Agma Schwa

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery161.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday, I interview Agma Schwa about dog languages, cursed conlangs, and creativity. Make sure to check out this year’s Cursed Conlang Circus!

New Videoː Roll for Vowelsǃ

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I’ve been hard at work on my dice system for creating conlangs for TTRPGs. Here is a draft of how I would roll a vowel system.  If you want to play with the system yourself, you can get a copy of the PDF rules and a playingcards.io virtual tabletop here. Resources to learn more: 

Can ChatGPT Create a Language?

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery159.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge breaks down a paper that discusses ChatGPT’s supposed ability to create languages. It is not impressive. Citations Diamond, Justin. “Genlangs and Zipf’s Law.” ArXiv Computer Science, 2023. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.12191.pdf De Marzo, Giordano, Francesco Sylos Labini, and Luciano Pietronero. “Zipf’s Law for Cosmic Structures: How Large Are… Read more »

Marc Okrand on Klingon and Conlanging

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery158.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge interviews Marc Okrand on his work on Klingon and Atlantean and his experiences with both the Klingon speaker community and the greater conlanging community.