https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery13.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAlternate 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… Read more »
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Conlangery #12: Personal Names
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery12.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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…. Read more »
Conlangery #11: Nonconfigurationality
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery11.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday 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… Read more »
Conlangery #09: Formality and Register
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery09.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreListen to David Peterson talk to Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont on Sword and Laser #68: Ad-libbing in Dothraki We’re all about formality today, from the intricate politeness system of Korean to some crazy Nahuatl stuff to the subtle syntax of the English polite request. We… Read more »
Conlangery #08: Kinship Terms
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery08.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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… Read more »
Conlangery #07: Word Creation
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery07.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge 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… Read more »
Conlangery #06: Linguistic Typology
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery06.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe talk at length about linguistic typology and all the weird and wonderful tendencies that human languages seem to have. We also talk a little on Láadan, the language for women that our own token woman isn’t too fond of (philosophy-wise, anyway). Resources: The Universals Archive The… Read more »
Conlangery #05: Scripts and Writing
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery05.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe’re back to talk about scripts: what kind of script to use, how con-history fits into it, tips for developing a realistic script, etc. Then we talk about a language that, while not having a unique writing system per se, has incorporated existing systems in an… Read more »
Conlangery #04: Getting Started
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery04.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreIt’s just George and Bianca this week, as Will ended up dealing with the spontaneous combustion of a server. We do our best to stumble through some some recommendations for new conlangers and later take a look at an interesting little Germanic conlang. Links The Language… Read more »
Conlangery #03: The Good and the Bad
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery03.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge finally gets Bianca’s last name right (it’s [mæŋgəm]) and we talk a little about people mispronouncing our names. Then we get into what makes a language good or bad, and don’t come to much of a good conclusion other than the old “eye of the… Read more »
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