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Conlangery #135: Using Linguistic Theory for Conlanging

Conlangery Podcast

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The Weirdness of Klingon Stress

The Klingon stress system is really freaking weird. It's intentionally a non-human, unnatural by a human centric point of view,. And he achieved it by breaking rules. But what you proved is that at least English speakers can acquire it. The syllable structure doesn't make any sense to a phonologist. If you want to make something that's intentionally not human, then you have to figure out like, what do we know human languages do?

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