Conlangery Podcast

George talks to Paul Frommer, creator of Na’vi, about his work creating languages for movies, including creating a separate dialect for 'The Shape of Water' and the process of creating a conlang for a movie. They also discuss advice for con-lingers and the importance of studying typology and different language grammars.

The podcast explores the limitations of ChatGPT in creating consistent languages. It examines the arguments and methods used to generate languages, discussing noun cases, skepticism about adjective agreement, and the critique of descriptive language. Inconsistencies in the constructed language Vivencia are highlighted. The concept of Zipfian distribution and its application to language generation is explored, emphasizing its limitations. The podcast concludes by discussing the limitations of ChatGPT in creating languages and the need for consistent word meanings and grammatical structures.

Marc Okrand, expert in Klingon and Atlantean languages, discusses the growth of constructed languages in media, creation of Klingon and Atlantean, challenges of coaching actors in speaking Klingon, creating languages for fictional creatures, and developing sound effects languages for TV shows and movies.

The podcast host provides updates, announces plans to start streaming, and reveals new project to create language Draconic for Dungeons and Dragons. Join us on Fridays for a new conlanging event after Langtime Studio, appealing to conlangers and fans of D&D.

CD Covington, author of an upcoming book on linguistic worldbuilding, discusses exploring challenges of navigating culture and language, phonetics in linguistic worldbuilding, creating realistic and comprehensible alien languages, prestige dialects, integrating language into narrative and world building, and borrowing words and phonetic changes in a new language.

George interviews Biblaridion on conlanging, worldbuilding, and YouTube.

George has obtained information on the conlang Rasharnian created for Immortals of Aveum. This is a critique of that language as well as a discussion of issues surrounding it that were brought up in the conlanging community.

George has David and Jesse on to talk about Kopikon! Links:

Here’s the audio of my talk at LCC10. The video version can be seen here.

We have two conlang conferences coming up this year. LCC10 is this weekend, and in September, we’ll have Kopikon!