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Energizing Bitcoin & Ai#059 - George Mekhail - Bitcoin Magazine on Energizing BitcoinGeorge Mekhail, General Manager at Bitcoin Magazine, joins this episode of the Energizing Bitcoin Podcast with his son Kingston to explore "The Unseen Truth About Bitcoin's Moral Impact." George’s journey from real estate and banking during the financial crisis to Bitcoin advocacy provides a compelling look into the ethical implications of decentralized finance. From his experience leading a megachurch to his role at BTC Inc, George shares how Bitcoin can address economic crises and transform corrupt systems. With insights into Bitcoin's growing influence and the next generation’s enthusiasm through Kingston, this episode offers a deep dive into the...2024-10-2951 min
I 501(c) You - The Podcast for NonProfit Board MembersIs Having a Big Heart Enough to Lead a Nonprofit? With Matt GeorgeThis week we have the pleasure of speaking with Matt George, Executive Director turned nonprofit consultant and leadership coach. Matt is a strong proponent of collaboration, competition, and doing what is ultimately best for the community, even if it means merging organizations.
Matt started his nonprofit career at 16-years old with a fundraiser to help the family of a friend who had cancer. The feeling of raising that money led him to a life in the nonprofit world, joining various organizations as the executive director and merging 5 organizations over his time. He is a true servant leader, a...2023-08-0844 min
Same Business Different DayGeorge Coletrain ReturnsIn this episode, we welcome back our favorite artists' favorite artist, George Coletrain. As usual, George doesn't disappoint. He bares his soul and shares from the heart. Although his personal experiences may not be like most of ours, he puts them into words with which we can all relate. George shares with us about what he's been up to lately, and which "season" he's heading into next. As he welcomes his second child, he stays motivated to learn, teach, and make wise use of his time. This one is as full of laughs as it is wisdom & energy. Welcome back Ge...2022-08-1657 min
Conlangery PodcastConlangery Shorts 31: Listen Like a Conlanger — Child LanguageGeorge talks a little about little tidbits of his daughter’s linguistic development, and talks about how listening to child language might help conlangers find inspiration.2019-11-0318 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 143: Music of AeniithMargaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith, which they performed at LCC8. Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan2019-10-0748 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 142: Mike McCubbins on Anasazi (comic)We bring Mike McCubbins on to talk about his new Kickstarter project, Anasazi, a comic which uses simple constructed written languages to tell a story in a visual medium. You can find the Kickstarter here! Top of Show Greeting: Salbécyk / Salbekian2019-08-3054 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 141: The Eighth Language Creation ConferenceGeorge brings on Christophe and Joey to talk about their experience at the Eighth Language Creation Conference. We also have clips from interviews Joey made at the conference. Top of Show Greeting: Bizhida Links: 8th Language Creation Conference Livestream: Day 1, Day 22019-08-0500 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 140: Word Classes with William CroftGeorge and William invite Prof. William Croft to talk about his theoretical approach to word classes and constructions. Forget a language without adjectives, let’s talk about how your property concepts are predicated! Links and Resources: Croft, William. in preparation. Morphosyntax: constructions of the world’s languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1, Chapter 2 Croft, William.... Read more »2019-07-031h 11Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS 30: Revising a GrammarGeorge spends some time talking about his recent revisions of his Istatikii grammar, with a focus on organizing writing to serve the needs of the language and the readers. You will find the two drafts of the Istatikii consonant processes below. Script below the fold, see the history here. Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about... Read more »2019-06-0311 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets joins us to talk to us about Ainu, a minority language of northern Japan. Top of Show Greeting: Bwángxùd by alr2569 (Translation Notes) Links and Resources: Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading A Topical Dictionary of Conversational Ainu Bugaeva, A. (2004). Grammar and folklore texts of the Chitose dialect of Ainu:... Read more »2019-05-061h 17Conlangery PodcastConlangery #138: Jessie Sams and Conlangs in the ClassroomJessie Sams comes on the show to talk to us about how she uses conlanging in the classroom. We discuss how these courses can be designed, what fields of linguistics they address well, and the results she saw from the course. Jessie also requested the following message be added to the notes: I would also... Read more »2019-04-0852 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #137: Telicity and Lexical AspectGeorge and William come back to talk about telicity and lexical aspect. Listen to us talk about endpoints in events and puzzle over why achievement and accomplishment are supposed to mean different things. Links and Resources: Agbo, M. (2010). Verb classification and Aktionsart in Ìgbò. California Linguistic Notes, 35(1), 1–21. Aoki, N., & Nakatani, K.... Read more »2019-03-0546 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS 29: Reflections of a PhD graduateGeorge reflects on completing his PhD, and talks to those conlangers who might be considering graduate study in linguistics. Script below the fold: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley, and we’re back! We’re going to have a short episode today, just to catch y’all... Read more »2019-02-0107 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #28: Fuzzy PhoneticsGeorge gives a short talk about how phonology affects phonetic transcriptions and why the narrow “phonetic” transcription of your language does not have to be overly specific (especially with vowels!). We should have a regular episode again next month. ORIGINAL SCRIPT: There is a tendency in the conlanging community to hew toward more narrow, standardized... Read more »2018-04-1419 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #136: Nymeran with Colm DoyleColm Doyle comes on to talk about his Nymeran language, created for the comic series Glow, as well as some of the process and challenges of making a conlang and script for comics. Top of Show Greeting: Vaq’ǫ̀ʔ Nąśą /vàqʼõ̀ʔ nã̀ʃã́/ Glow issue 2 Kickstarter2018-03-0857 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #135: Using Linguistic Theory for ConlangingJoey Windsor and Christophe Grandsire-Koevets join George to discuss what tools we can get from more advanced linguistics theoretical frameworks. What tools do they provide the conlanger, and where do you have to be careful about applying them. Top of Show Greeting: Gidurguyt [ɡɪ-ərdɡuː-jɪt] LCC Presentations: Doug Ball’s Talk Unfortunately, the video of Joey’s talk... Read more »2018-02-051h 13Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #27: #Lexember 2017 Wrap-upGeorge discusses last year’s Lexember and some of the things that came out of that. Also, help us correct our transcripts on the Conlang Sources Wiki. What we reblogged on Tumblr. The Conlangery Twitter account. (Sorry, twitter search is bad, so I can’t conveniently direct you just to Lexember retweets.)2018-01-1316 minConlangery PodcastANNOUNCEMENT: Patreon Fee ChangesConlangery Statement on Patreon Fee Changes (audio and transcript) We use Patreon to get a little money to pay some of the site fees and such for Conlangery. Our Patreon has grown some since it started, and I’m grateful to all our Patrons. However, I need to inform you that the way you pay through... Read more »2017-12-1202 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #134: ConverbsToday, Matt Pearson joins George and William to talk about non-finite “adverbial” verb forms called converbs. Top of Show Greeting: Old Niveni Links and Resources: Imperative Converb in Archi (conference abstract) Expressing adverbial relations in clause linkage with converbs: definitional and typological considerations (workshop slides) Ylikoski, J. (2003). Defining non-finites. Action nominals, converbs and infmitives.... Read more »2017-12-051h 02Conlangery PodcastConlangery #133: Language and IdentityJake and Kaye come on to talk about how language can interact with identity, across ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class identities. Top of Show Greeting: Faikari. /ˈvɐ͡ɪ.kʰɒ.ˌʁi/ Links and Resources: Plural you Key and Peele skits 1, 2 Stigmatization of speech associated with women “Sounding gay” Journal of Gender and Language Mondorf, B. (2002)... Read more »2017-11-2651 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #26: PhonixThis week, George discusses Phonix, a sound change applier that will help you with your historical conlanging.2017-10-0308 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #132: Coptic (natlang)This episode, we discuss Coptic, the last descendant of thousands of years of Ancient Egyptian, now spoken mainly as a liturgical language in Coptic Christian churches in Egypt. Top of Show Greeting: Nalathis Special Mention: Go watch Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues! Links and Resources: Plumley, Martin (1948) An Introductory Coptic Grammar. London: Home... Read more »2017-09-0456 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #131: The Seventh Language Creation Conference #LCC7This month Christophe and William come on to talk about their experience at LCC7. Along with a few people William recorded on his phone. View the conference page here and all the videos of talks here. Top of Show Greeting: Croatian (translated and performed by Dorian Frangen)2017-08-071h 20Conlangery PodcastConlangery #130: Interview with Kaye BoesmeKaye Boesme joins George to talk about her far-future audiodrama Epiphany. Top of Show Greeting: Narahji (Note, I am working on a transcript for this episode. It has been delayed by irregular baby napping.)2017-07-031h 05Conlangery PodcastConlangery #129: Non-Vocal LanguagesJake Malloy and David Peterson join George to talk about sign language as well as a few other ways humans communicate non-vocally. Top of Show Greeting: Bakom Links and Resources: SLIPA ASL Lessons ASL classifiers Non-manual markers in ASL ASL Internet slang Plains Indian Sign Language Tactile Signing Black ASL Signed Exact English (signed English... Read more »2017-06-061h 23Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #25: Listen Like a Conlanger – Specialized TermsGeorge talks about how to listen to the language all around you like a conlanger, especially when you encounter weird specialized terms or senses of words. Wiktionary entry on “wrong” (includes the sewing sense)2017-05-0213 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS 24: Personal Conlanging ProgressGeorge talks a bit about his personal progress with Middle Pahran. Draft Grammar of Middle Pahran2017-04-0523 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #128: Lingua PhilosophicaDavid Salo comes on to talk about his historical research into George Dalgarno’s Lingua Philosophica, a 17th century philosophical language. We discuss the features of Dalgarno’s work, a little of how it compares to other work of the time and also its influence on the history of conlanging. Top of Show Greeting: Lingua Philosophica (translated... Read more »2017-03-061h 00Conlangery PodcastConlangery #127: Language PolicyWilliam is out for this month so we have Jake Malloy here to talk a bit about language policy, both official and unofficial, as well as a bit about language attitudes. Top of Show Greeting: Shidhunarien2017-02-101h 31Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #23: Lexember 2016 reflectionI reflect a bit on Lexember 2016. Links and Resources: My post on -piq Dragonlinguistics on Tumblr Also please check out Phonetic Calligraphy on Tumblr and Facebook!2017-01-3113 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #22: Axanar UpdateGeorge gives a quick update on the Paramount v Axanar case and the LCS’s part in it. This was previously discussed in episode 119. For more information, please see the Language Creation Society’s Axanar information page.2017-01-1109 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #126: Hoocąk (natlang)Today we bring on Cecil Garvin to talk about Hoocąk a Siouan language still spoken in Wisconsin and on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska. Top of Show Greeting: Ulazradũn Links and Resources Hocąk Waziija Haci Language Division (some recordings there) Hoocąk hįįt’ekjawi (still waiting to hear if we can share this) Hocąk Teaching Materials (Volume... Read more »2016-12-0551 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #125: Grammatical NumberThis month we talk about grammatical number. What number distinctions can you make for a language (beyond singular and plural)? What do you mark for number? And how does number interact with agreement and other grammatical systems? We’ll help you with all of that. Top of Show Greeting: Classical Latin (translated and read by Nicholas... Read more »2016-11-0750 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #124: Old Irish (natlang)We welcome Matt Boutilier on to talk about Old Irish, from the destruction of verb roots due to initial stress, to how you can incorporate initial mutations into a language. Special mention: George recommends the show Cleverman. Nothing to do with this episode, it’s just good. Top of show greeting: Dubarne /du’barnə/ Links and Resources... Read more »2016-10-0349 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #123: Stress SystemsToday we talk all about word-level stress systems, a part of your conlang that can be done in a few minutes or have you stressing for many days, weeks, or maybe months. It all comes down to what kind of stress system you go with. Top of Show Greeting: Modern Standard Arabic (translated and read... Read more »2016-09-0548 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SPECIAL #2: Too Like the LightningWilliam invites Ada Palmer on to talk about her new book Too Like the Lightning, which, while not so conlangy, uses language in interesting ways for world-building, including neologisms, unusual punctuation, and gratuitous Latin revivals. Links and Resources: Ada’s book on Amazon Or Barnes and Noble Ada’s Blog Ex Urbe2016-08-1546 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #122: BroodingToday, we bring on Scott Hamilton and BenJamin P. Johnson to talk about Brooding, a language that both of them have worked on for the Riddlesbrood Touring Theater Company. Special Announcement: Britton’s film Conlanging is now crowdfunding on Indiegogo! Top of Show Greeting: Finnish (translate and recorded by Eric-Mickya Liwata) Links and Resources The Riddlesbrood... Read more »2016-08-0159 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #121: TrigedaslengWe bring on our long time “frenemy” David Peterson to talk about Trigedasleng, the future English conlang he created for the CW show The 100. Top of Show Greeting: Noserliq (< > = [ŋ]) Links and Resources: Trigedasleng.info David’s Tumblr answers Skaigedasleng Tumblr Memrise courses2016-07-041h 10Conlangery PodcastConlangery #120: AdjectivesThis episode we talk all about adjectives, what you can do with them and how they fit into a language. Special Mention: Glow (2 days left on Kickstarter) Links and Resources Grune, D. (1995) Hopi Survey of an Uto-Aztecan Language. Halling, P. H. (2012). Semantic Types and Prototypical Adjectives and Adverbs (“Dixon Specials” on page... Read more »2016-06-0639 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #119: Paramount v AxanarGeorge brings on Sai, Christophe, and attorney Mark Randazza to talk about the LCS’s decision to file an amicus brief in Paramount v Axanar. Links and Resources: LCS press release (with links to press articles) Amicus brief (and exhibits) The Dentons legal memo The Visual Artists Rights Act (- Wiki — closest thing the US... Read more »2016-05-031h 10Conlangery PodcastConlangery #118: Linguistics DatabasesThis month we present you with a bunch of online linguistics databases to help get an idea of what possibilities there are for languages. Top of Show Greeting: Maruħani Links and Resources: WALS (general typology) APiCS (pidgin and creole typology) eWAVE (English dialects and English-based creoles) SSWL (syntactic typology) PBase (common phonological rules) PHOIBLE (phonological... Read more »2016-04-0451 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #117: KashToday, after a brief digression about Pahlavi, we get into last year’s Smiley winner Kash. Links Cindu website David Peterson’s Smiley writeup2016-03-1539 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #116: The Conlanger’s BookshelfToday we take some time to suggest a few books that conlangers should check out. Linguistics Books Heine, B., & Kuteva, T. (2002). World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press. Bybee, J., Perkins, R., & Pagliuca, W. (1994). The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. University of Chicago... Read more »2016-02-1434 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #21: What to do after #LexemberGeorge gives another short about what you can do with your Lexember words after lexember.2016-01-3008 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #20: #Lexember 2015 HighlightsIn this short episode, George puts together some of his favorites from the last Lexember! Also, a note, he also wrote a thing for Fiat Lingua. #Lexember #kardak #conlang #conscript #WOD #29 #languages pic.twitter.com/sAWio7VyXo — DachiiKardak (@dachiikardak) December 30, 2015 http://olilonien.tumblr.com/post/135933221852/lexember-day-25 This is probably the #lexember coinage I’m proudest of – pic.twitter.com/UaLD3ss5h9 — Zeke Fordsmender... Read more »2016-01-0422 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #115: TsolyániVictor Raymond joins us today to talk about the language Tsolyáni, created by MAR Barker and implemented in his campaign setting Tékumel in Empire of the Petal Throne. Top of Show Greeting: Proto-Continental Links and Resources: Tékumel official site Tékumel Foundation The Tsolyáni Language The Tsolyáni Primer All Tekumel books on DriveThruRPG2015-12-011h 20Conlangery PodcastConlangery #114: Thai (natlang)This month Britton joined us and we talked about the wonders of reduplication and nicknames in Thai. Top of Show Greeting: Dzuish (English-based conlang) Wikipedia on Thai Thai-language.com Noss, R. B. (1964). Thai reference grammar. Foreign Service Institute. Haiman, J. (2013). Decorative morphology in Khmer. In The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in …... Read more »2015-11-031h 22Conlangery PodcastConlangery #113: ApplicativesTop of Show Greeting: Zametulian Announcements Radio West interview and Video West feature of Trent Pehrson The Art of Language Invention (George’s review, William’s review) Links and Resources Lamoureaux, S. V. D. (2004). Applicative Constructions in Maasai. Linguistics, (August). Austin, P. K. (2005). Causative and applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal Languages. The Dative and Related... Read more »2015-10-0556 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #112: The Conlanging film with Britton WatkinsIn this very special episode, we interview Britton Watkins about his upcoming documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues while his husband films us for said documentary. Keep your eye out for their crowdfunding to start, and look forward to seeing our faces when the film is released next year. You can see information on... Read more »2015-09-071h 06Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #19: Kinship in Henan MandarinGeorge discusses his own observations about the use of kinship terms in his wife’s village in Henan province, China. NOTE: We’re going to change how our audio is hosted soon. This might mean some oddness in the feeds in the coming weeks.2015-08-2407 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #111: Interview with JS BangsToday we have a long talk with author and conlanger JS Bangs about conlanging, worldbuilding, and writing. Top of the Show Greeting: Praseo Links and Resources: JS Bangs’s conlang site JSBangs.com2015-08-031h 14Conlangery PodcastConlangery #110: CopulaeToday Christophe joins us as we talk all about copulas, or copulae, however you want to talk about them. Special mention: Intro video for Britton’s new film Conlanging Top of Show Greeting: Dutch (submitted anonymously) Links and Resources: Curnow, T. J. (1999). Towards a Cross-linguistic Typology of Copula Constructions. Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of... Read more »2015-07-061h 02Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #18: Noun Classification in PalikúrThis episode, William tells us about the noun classifications in Palikúr, a language with both gender and numeral classifers (once thought impossible) and a couple other classifications aside. EDIT: An earlier version of the shownotes linked to the JSTOR page of the Aikenvald and Green paper. The new link goes to a page where you... Read more »2015-06-0312 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #109: KataputiToday we review the Akana conlang Kataputi. In other news, the Sixth Language Creation Conference happened. Links below. Also, George is getting his Masters. Top of Show Greeting: Old English/Anglo-Saxon (translated and read by Scott Brewer) Links and Resources Kataputi Proto-Dumic Announced bits William’s post about legal stuff LCC6 site Day 1, part 1 Day... Read more »2015-05-0737 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #108: ObviationSupport Conlangery on Patreon! Announcements: David Salo talking at WiGL on April 11, in Madison, WI, USA The Sixth Language Creation Conference will be on April 25-26 in Horsham, UK Bianca joins us today for an episode on obviation, just another option for managing discourse while clarifying who does what to who. Also, we have... Read more »2015-04-0641 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #107: MotenChristophe Grandsire-Koevoets comes on to talk about his conlang Moten. Top of Show Greeting: Nærut Nɑnɑ́rɑ Links and Resources: The Moten page of Christophe’s blog Christophe’s presentation at LCC42015-03-021h 00Conlangery PodcastConlangery #106: Auxiliary Verb ConstructionsSuzette Haden Elgin passed away on January 27th. She will be missed. You can now support Conlangery on Patreon! William can now talk about conlanging he did for a videogame! In this episode, George and William go over the wonderful diversity of auxiliary verb constructions! So much to think about! Links and Resources: Auxiliary Verb... Read more »2015-02-0248 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #17: Lexember 2014This episode, George highlights a few words from last year’s #Lexember event. Words: ihar kopoyamtuki snūgā kwägilärä naagari hintul chyubīne tneban fri2015-01-0620 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #16: Gender AssignmentToday George is on his own with a short and a book recommendation. You can find links to Gender by Greville Corbett here. LCS members can borrow it from the LCS Lending Library here.2014-12-0117 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #105: Navajo/Diné (natlang)Today it’s just George and William talking about the wonders of Navajo. Mostly William talking, as he knows more about it. Top of show Greeting: Yanem Links and Resources: Wikipedia The Navajo Language (best resource on the Internet) The Derivation of Meaning in the Navajo Verb Structure of Navajo A bunch of learning resources Reversing... Read more »2014-11-0346 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for TimeToday we discuss how languages talk about time. Particularly, how do we map time onto space metaphorically. Top of Show Greeting: Duojjin Links and Resources: From Space to Time (Haspelmath) — warning, big download Metaphor SPACE AS TIME across languages How Languages Construct Time Time and the mind: Using space to think about time Spatial... Read more »2014-09-3047 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #103: Mailbag 2We’re back! This episode we answer your emails on the show. Check the full emails below the fold. Top of Show Greeting: Fyai Thǔvn Email#1 Cherry-pick and paraphrase without mercy. Apologies if these have been addressed in the 30 released episodes I’m yet to enjoy. Over-long Ingratiating Preamble: I started listening to your podcast 29... Read more »2014-09-0133 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #102: AfrihiliToday we discuss Afrihili in some detail, a discussion made possible by William’s work tracking down the book and publishing some highlights about the language. Links and Resources: William’s Paper Wikipedia article on Afrihili2014-07-0758 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #15: Mixed LanguagesGeorge takes a moment to talk about a kind of language that is somewhat to related to the pidgins and creoles episode. CORRECTION: In the podcast I say that CIA is spoken on Copper Island. It originated there, but currently the surviving speaker population is on Bearing Island. Special note: conlang is now listed in... Read more »2014-06-1609 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #101: Pidgins and CreolesDavid Peterson joins us to talk about pidgins and creoles and what conlangers (and linguists) can learn from them. Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr (revised) Links and Resources: Wiki on creoles APICS (WALS for creoles) An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles Creole studies: a theoretical linguist’s field guide Wikipedia on Tok Pisin2014-06-0252 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #100: Interview with Christine SchreyerWe had a wonderful conversation with Christine Schreyer, the creator of the Kryptonian language featured in Man of Steel and a professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, who uses a language creation assignment in one of her classes. Top of Show Greeting: Moten Links and Resources: Christine Schreyer’s website Her... Read more »2014-05-0557 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #14: 吃酒喝面 Eating Wine and Drinking NoodlesToday 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 presenation2014-04-1409 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #13: Etymology Maps on RedditIn 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 Jew2014-03-1708 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SPECIAL: Changing of the Guard at the LCSGeorge recorded a special interview with David J Peterson and Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets to talk about some recent events at the Language Creation Society.2014-02-1730 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #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 »2014-01-0936 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #11: Phrasebook: What time is it?George continues his phrasebook series with a few musings about telling time. Long form episodes returning soon.2013-06-2414 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #10: Phrasebook: How do you say …?George continues his phrasebook series by considering what you say when you ask “How do you say …?” and “What does that mean?”2013-06-1813 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #09: Phrasebook: Hello and GoodbyeGeorge starts off on a sort of informal “series” of shorts on phrasebook phrases with some talk about greetings and farewells.2013-06-0316 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #08: A Pahran grammaticalization ideaGeorge shares an idea he is pursuing in the historical development of Pahran. LCC52013-04-2911 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #07: When do you insert your infix?George uses an example from Tagalog to highlight one of the decisions conlangers might need to make if they use infixing.2013-04-1506 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #06: Borrowing Cultural ConceptsGeorge talks about how we borrow words for cultural concepts, even when the concept isn’t all that alien to our culture. Links: Xenia Guanxi (关系) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)2013-02-2510 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #84: DelasonGeorge and Mike have a wonderful conversation with Nizar Habash, creator of Delason. Featured Conlang: Delason Feedback: Hi! I discovered this podcast almost a month ago and I’m on episode 46. I’m actually not a conlanger, but I love linguistics and I love the discussions you guys have about different aspects of language. Thank you... Read more »2013-02-1852 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #83: Conlanging through TranslationToday we tell you some techniques for using translations to flesh out your conlang. Top of Show Greeting: Pahran (George’s work-in-progress conlang) Links and Resources: Conlang Syntax Tests Aesop’s Fables (online collection)2013-02-1244 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #80: Zonal AuxlangsToday, George and William have an interesting discussion on the phenomenon of “zonal” auxiliary languages, which seek to unite a region rather than the whole world. Top of Show Greeting: Ponuhi Links and Resources: – Germanic auxlangs Euronord Teutonish Folksprak Frenkish – Slavic auxlangs A big giant list of them Neoslavonic Interslavic Jan van Steenbergen’s... Read more »2013-01-1453 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #02: George’s Favorite ChengyuGeorge shares his favorite chengyu (成语): 班门弄斧 Top of Show Greeting: Omlűt2012-11-2611 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #01: Date and Time in TagalogWe didn’t get a full episode out this week, but George didn’t want to have a week with nothing at all, so he “reads”* the date in Tagalog, then goes on a ramble about loanwords a bit. Top of Show Greeting: Lingwa de Planeta Text of that date and time expression, for the curious: Ika-4 ng... Read more »2012-11-0510 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #73: KhangaþyagonToday we eventually get to talking about Khangaþyagon, and get a lot of interesting stuff out of it. Also, George forgets a notable conlanger who has been featured before on the show. *headdesk* Top of Show Greeting: Shokitin Featured Conlang: Khangaþyagon Email: Conglangerists: A while ago I finished my trawl through the Conlangery backlog, and I’m quite happy... Read more »2012-10-291h 11Conlangery PodcastConlangery #65: TayéinWilliam is leaving (temporarily), but don’t worry, we have one more episode before he goes. Also, we talk with Eric about his lovely language Tayéin Top of Show Greeting: Frixàð Featured Conlang: Tayéin Feedback: Email from Sai: George, William, & Mike – Howdy. Alex & I were just listening to your podcast #62 while on a... Read more »2012-09-031h 30Conlangery PodcastConlangery #57: Animacy and AgencyAfter a short update on George’s grad school situation and some musing over our tagline, we get to talking about the very complex interactions that animacy and agency can have with the rest of your grammar. Then we talk about Interlingua, a very boring auxlang that appears to be comfortably readable by anyone who speaks... Read more »2012-07-021h 28Conlangery PodcastConlangery #48: Designing a Sound SystemAfter a discussion of George’s recent consumption of bear meat, we get to talking about designing your sound system, a topic we meant to talk about in episode 29 but somehow didn’t end up saying much about. After a long discussion about that topic, we feature perhaps the second most famous auxlang in history, which... Read more »2012-04-301h 29Conlangery PodcastConlangery #44: NegationFirst of all, George was on something called FourCast a bit ago. You might enjoy it. Also, CNN is doing a special on Dothraki on April 8. But the meat of this podcast is all about negation: how to deal with scope, negative concord, and a number of other issues in your conlang. Oh, and... Read more »2012-04-021h 17
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2012-03-1951 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #39: Noun IncorporationGeorge gets Bianca’s name wrong and no one notices. We also have some digressions at the beginning and the end of the show, but somehow we end up talking a whole lot about noun incorporation, and the weird and wacky language known as Gevey. Top of Show Greeting: Vaida Mi Ha Links and Resources: Notes... Read more »2012-02-271h 08Conlangery PodcastConlangery #36: Morphosyntactic AlignmentCORRECTION: A commenter below graciously corrected me on a point I (George) raised in the show. When I talk about desiderative languages, please replace that word with dechticaetiative. Look to the comments below for a relevant link. I apologize for misidentifying the phenomenon I was talking about. We talk a lot about morphosyntactic alignment, outlining the basic... Read more »2012-02-061h 07Conlangery PodcastConlangery #35: Practicum – Getting Rid of Case MarkingWhat do you do when you want to make a language without case marking? Or with very little case marking? That is what we attempt to explore in this episode. If you would like to take up George’s “homework” challenge, make up a sketch of a language and send an example of some sort of... Read more »2012-01-301h 00Conlangery PodcastConlangery #32: EvidentialsGeorge reveals a peeve, which leads to a bit of a tangent before we get to talking about the wonderful world of evidentials and all the stuff you can do with them. Then we cover a very curious language by the name Talossan. Top of Show Greeting: Gówa Links and Resources: Evidentiality in Tibetan Evidence... Read more »2012-01-091h 08Conlangery PodcastConlangery #30: Numeral SystemsGeorge has put up a grammar! Also, we talk numerals — what base to use, how to construct higher numerals, cardinal vs ordinal, etc. Then we feature a little bogolang called Wenedyk. Top of the Show Greeting: Celinese Links and Resources: WALS Numerical Base WALS Ordinals WALS Distributives WALS Numeral Classifiers Alyutor (Wikipedia) Pame number... Read more »2011-12-261h 05Conlangery PodcastConlangery #27: IrregularityWe start off with a reccomendation of sorts of the Speculative Grammarian Podcast, and George’s own long post on romanization. Then we get into the meat of the show talking about all kinds of irregularity and “regular irregularity”. Then we take a 180-degree turn and talk about the insanely regular Esperanto. Top of Show Greeting:... Read more »2011-12-051h 02Conlangery PodcastConlangery #24: PossessionAfter some observations about the merits of Star Wars and plastic chopsticks, we tell you all kinds of stuff about possession: alienable vs inalienable, various marking strategies, “to have” and more. Oh, and we talk about Abakwi. Top of Show Greeting: rejistanian Conlang: Abakwi Feedback: Email from Matt Pearson: Hi George, I finally had a... Read more »2011-11-1448 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #22: PronounsGeorge’s father has pragmatics issues, but anyway … pronouns! (Almost) every language is going to have pronouns of some sort. We talk all kinds — closed-class, open-class, free, clitic, and even having pronouns for bizarrely specific people. Also, we review Baranxe’i Links and Resources: Swahili concord (alternate) Mixtec Xavante (look for the reference to a’ama) WALS on demonstratives... Read more »2011-10-3157 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #07: Word CreationGeorge says: check out the LCS Podcast interview of Sheri Wells-Jensen. Meanwhile, on this side of the conlanging podosphere (literally, the other side, there are only two podcasts), we talk a little about how you can fill out that lexicon with words. And after that we talk about a language whose creator apparantly decided not... Read more »2011-07-1850 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #04: Getting StartedIt’s just George and Bianca this week, as Will ended up dealing with the spontaneous combustion of a server. We do our best to stumble through some some recommendations for new conlangers and later take a look at an interesting little Germanic conlang. Links The Language Construction Kit The Zompist Bulletin Board The Conlanger Bulletin... Read more »2011-06-2731 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #03: The Good and the BadGeorge finally gets Bianca’s last name right (it’s [mæŋgəm]) and we talk a little about people mispronouncing our names. Then we get into what makes a language good or bad, and don’t come to much of a good conclusion other than the old “eye of the beholder.” Then after Bianca leaves Will and George are... Read more »2011-06-2041 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #01: Why Conlang?Tomás insults George’s Spanish, then we get into a discussion about why we conlang and just how personal the hobby is. Then, we talk a little about measure words and genders, and about our Conlang of the Week: Feayran — The language of a race of shapeshifters created by David Edwards. Links: Wikipedia on measure... Read more »2011-05-3144 min