Yeah it was the that presentation on what was it already? It was on

the policy me

right? Yeah yeah yeah that's it it well it's something that it's one of my big interests because policy means a fantastic way to add words to a language without creating new words which since I'm really bad at creating words is something I like to do so it was a that a personal instrument so I really liked the example that she was giving and how especially how the when creating a language can culture can inform a conlang but the other way around is true as well in that when you have something created something in a in language it can somehow in some way suddenly have an influence on what the culture is like. Yeah which is not something you normally expect in a natural language. Yeah it's not unless you believe in the strong superior hypothesis.

Well I mean that was nice. I don't know how she put this but to me that there's there might be an element of discovering things about the con culture through the language.

Exactly that's exactly how he puts it. Yeah

yeah yeah. For me anytime I get to hear a conlang or talk about the etymology of their words or how they imagine the etymology came about and in their con culture I love hearing that thought process so like Margaret was talking about how one goddess was known for being very ocean in a graphic I guess and so changing personalities with violent storms versus calm surf and how that moved its way through one of the words. Hearing how grammatical gender weird things happen where like a noun for a girl becomes masculine gender I think I'm thinking of a Dothraki example right now where a girl got was synonymous with mushroom because they looked like mushrooms because of their haircut and mushroom was masculine gender so the noun for girl became masculine gender and I think it was Dothraki and I love hearing stuff like that so Margaret's talk was fantastic as well. There was a talk on the first day I forget who the speaker was who had that was also about that and they were talking about how they had they were talking about how people named sing right and like the there's a mythology behind I think that's uh Harper-McCarly's talk that you're thinking of. I think so I don't recall the name off top my head but they have the people with horns I believe and yes they're talking about the geographic regions yeah that was Harper yeah yeah that was much more focused on their own conlang than what you're talking about but that's that was a very interesting talk. Yeah just it was a lightning talk about Harper's first attempt at conlanging and the decisions they made and I mean the slides were awesome I think they were a little nervous getting up there in front of everyone but gave an awesome talk.