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Conlangery Podcast

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Apr 14, 2014 • 10min

Conlangery SHORTS #14: 吃酒喝面 Eating Wine and Drinking Noodles

Today George brings on his fiancé Li Wang to talk about some interesting little lexical facts in Chinese that might be an inspiration. Links and Resources Google shows nearly a million hits for 吃酒 A Conlanger’s Thesaurus Semantic Associations presenation
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Apr 7, 2014 • 49min

Conlangery #99: Nonconcatenative Morphology

We have some fun telling you about nonconcatenative mophology — that is morphology that doesn’t involve stringing things together. It’s not just Arabic, folks (though we do talk about that a bit). Top of Show Greeting: Engeldish Links and Resources:  “Down with Morphemes” talk and paper Wikipedia article Wikipedia “Apophony” Indo-European Ablaut “Transfix” Arabic broken... Read more »
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Mar 17, 2014 • 8min

Conlangery SHORTS #13: Etymology Maps on Reddit

In this episode, George points out a really interesting little subreddit that might provide some inspiration to conlangers. Links and Resources Etymology Maps subreddit camel clock beer Jew
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Mar 3, 2014 • 47min

Conlangery #98: Menya (natlang)

We talk about a Papua New Guinea language called Menya. Follow along here.       —
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Feb 17, 2014 • 31min

Conlangery SPECIAL: Changing of the Guard at the LCS

George recorded a special interview with David J Peterson and Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets to talk about some recent events at the Language Creation Society.
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Feb 3, 2014 • 59min

Conlangery #97: Interview with Britton Watkins

Today we interview conlanger Britton Watkins about his journey from natlang enthusiasm through Vulcan and Na’vi fandom to creating a conlang for his and his husband’s ‘nano-budget’ movie. Korsaya.org Senn
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Jan 20, 2014 • 8min

Conlangery SHORTS #12: Verbs in Uskra

Bianca tells us a little about the verbal system of Uskra, one of her conlangs, and how she played with giving grammatical forms multiple uses.
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Jan 9, 2014 • 36min

Conlangery #96: Where did my Nominative go?

George and William have a discussion of those times when the subject isn’t in the case you might expect it to be in. Links and Resources: Wikipedia on Quirky Subject Subject cases in Sadani Oblique subjects in Slavic (handout/ PowerPoint) Warlpiri Comparative study with lots of examples from many languages Non-nominative subject in Oriya Okuna... Read more »
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Dec 3, 2013 • 42min

Conlangery #95: Weird Ideas for Auxlangs

Today we talk about a bunch of wacky and wonderful auxlangs. Links and Resources: Real Character Caracteristica universalis aUI (Wikipedia, original site, a not-so-friendly review) Dnghu Babm Blissymbolics (official site, Wikipedia) Solresol
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Oct 2, 2013 • 2min

Announcement: Apologies on Recent (and potentially continuing) Dissappearance

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