Today, ZeWei joins us to talk about their music and conlanging, as well as the Cursed Conlang Circus and more. ZeWei’s channel ..read more

https://youtu.be/KpLt4v2PhQA George talked to Paul Frommer, the creator of Na'vi, about his work creating languages for movies. Resources mentioned: Looking at Languages by Paul Frommer and Edward Finegan An Annotated Dictionary of Na'vi by Stefan G. Müller Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues A Guide to Barsoom by John Flint Roy Possible and Probable Languages by Frederick J. Newmeyer ..read more

Aidan Aannestad comes on the show to talk about information structure, which included discussions on topic and focus and how they can be realized in language. Links and Resources ..read more

Jake and Miles of Let’s have a Bouba come on to talk about conlanging on YouTube ..read more

Carl Buck joins us to discuss his work as co-creator of Sangheili on Halo as well as his own personal conlanging work. Links: Halo (TV series) Omyatloko Logosyllabary for Kala Carl’s Blog ..read more

I interview Jessie Peterson of  @LangTimeStudio  about her Conlang Year project, as well as her other conlanging education and promotion projects. See Conlang Year here: https://www.quothalinguist.com ..read more

I talked to  Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube ..read more

Today, I interview Agma Schwa about dog languages, cursed conlangs, and creativity. Make sure to check out this year’s Cursed Conlang Circus ..read more

George breaks down a paper that discusses ChatGPT’s supposed ability to create languages. It is not impressive. Citations Diamond, Justin. “Genlangs and Zipf’s Law.” ArXiv Computer Science, 2023. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.12191.pdf De Marzo, Giordano, Francesco Sylos Labini, and Luciano Pietronero. “Zipf’s Law for Cosmic Structures: How Large Are the Greatest Structures in the Universe?” Astronomy & Astrophysics 651 (July 2021): A114. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141081. Gabaix, X. “Zipf’s Law for Cities: An Explanation.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, n ..read more

George interviews Marc Okrand on his work on Klingon and Atlantean and his experiences with both the Klingon speaker community and the greater conlanging community ..read more