Posts Tagged: language

Madeline James on Conlanging for Writing

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/mc.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery167.mp3?awCollectionId=15512&awEpisodeId=11449864&aw_0_azn.pgenre=Leisure&aw_0_1st.ri=blubrry&aw_0_azn.pcountry=US&aw_0_azn.planguage=en-us&cat_exclude=IAB1-8%2CIAB1-9%2CIAB7-41%2CIAB8-5%2CIAB8-18%2CIAB11-4%2CIAB23%2CIAB24%2CIAB25%2CIAB26&aw_0_cnt.rss=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.podtrac.com%2FSNy9uvK6tiNIPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreI had a nice discussion with author Madeline James about how she has just begun learning conlanging to create naming languages and formulaic spells. Join us as we discuss how she focuses on limited conlangs for the needs of her story and about her journey learning… Read more »

ZeWei Discusses Conlang Music and Cursed Pronouns

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/mc.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery166.mp3?awCollectionId=15512&awEpisodeId=11405733&aw_0_azn.pgenre=Leisure&aw_0_1st.ri=blubrry&aw_0_azn.pcountry=US&aw_0_azn.planguage=en-us&cat_exclude=IAB1-8%2CIAB1-9%2CIAB7-41%2CIAB8-5%2CIAB8-18%2CIAB11-4%2CIAB23%2CIAB24%2CIAB25%2CIAB26&aw_0_cnt.rss=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.podtrac.com%2FSNy9uvK6tiNIPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday, ZeWei joins us to talk about their music and conlanging, as well as the Cursed Conlang Circus and more. ZeWei’s channel.

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 »