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Conlangery #111: Interview with JS Bangs

Conlangery Podcast

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The Limits of Conlang

There are actually five different named languages within Storm Bride, which is four more than exist in most fantasy books. So you can't put in tons of conlang on and then subtitulate or do side by side translation. I make no attempt to discuss the grammar of the languages or either historical relationships for that matter. But because you can't provide subtitles as the, you know, like they do on a television show or a movie, but what you can do is describe a realistic linguistic situation.

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