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LangTime Chat, Episode 60: Call for Conlang Review Volunteers and Some Informal Chatting

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I struggled with what to title this episode… but that’s what it is. We start with David putting out a call for volunteers to be a part of our new conlang review series, which will have varying formats, depending on what you (as a volunteer) would like to get out of the experience.

Then we continue the episode with a very informal chat about our recent experiences on a work project (all under NDA, so the chatting is very informal, vague, and, at times, nebulous).

This episode marks the wrapping up of our first five years of LangTime Chat! We look forward to what the sixth year brings!

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LangTime Chat, Episode 59: LTS Mini Relay Live Reveal

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This podcast episode was special because it was a surprise livestream for the Patrons who joined us for the end-of-month Patron stream! We reveal the results of the first ever LTS Mini Relay, which ran during the month of December, and the episode features two very special guests: Jake and Miles from Let’s Have a Bouba!

Attached you’ll find the slides and the documents of the relay so you can follow along with all the texts.

Enjoy!

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LangTime Chat, Episode 58: Conlang Relay Demo

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In this episode, I give David a sample miniature relay text written in Vuochanad, and he works his way through translating the text, narrating his thought process as he works. Once he has a working English translation, he then translates the tiny text into High Valyrian, again narrating his thought process.

At the end, we discuss areas where the translation had already shifted from my original intentions, and we introduce the upcoming challenge of this month: a very mini conlang relay!

If you are interested in participating, let me know as soon as possible, so we can get the ball rolling. The relay is super informal and will be a very short text, so it will be a good way to test out a language you’re working on, to get introduced to what a conlang relay is like, or to just spend an evening of conlang fun doing a little challenge!

Attached are the slides we used, the document David received (with the typos I found later…), and the document where David typed notes and did his translations.

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LangTime Chat, Episode 57: A Posteriori Challenge: The Results!

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We unveil the results of the a posteriori challenge introduced in episode 56. Patrons helped us create a whole family of Wokuthízhű languages for communities of kangaroo rats, and the results are absolutely delightful!

I have attached the slides for this presentation (really, a must for seeing all the amazing data set comparisons), and I’ve also attached the documents so you can all see the work submitted. It truly is astounding to see how much you all put into this challenge, and we can’t thank you enough for making this challenge so delightful!

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LangTime Chat, Episode 56: A Posteriori Challenge

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In this episode, we introduce the next LangTime conlang challenge: you get a chance to create an a posteriori conlang sketch built on Wokuthízhű! Tune in to find out the details, including information about the speakers of this new language.

Attached here are the slideshow for the episode and guidelines for the challenge (both in Pages and PDF formats).

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LangTime Chat, Episode 55: A posteriori conlangs

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In this episode, David and I discuss some of the a posteriori conlangs we have worked on. It is a brief intermission between two conlang challenges in our five-part mini-series on conlanging from existing material!

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LangTime Chat, Episode 54: Conlanging with Pre-Existing Material, Part 2

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It’s the long-awaited episode, where we discuss results from the (in)famous FrameLang Challenge! This is a continuation of Episode 53, which introduces the challenge.

All participants worked with the same data set: a sampling of English names, phrases, and clauses, which had to be treated as a base for a new conlang. It’s the same kind of process David and I use when we have to work with existing material in books/shows that incorporate bits of “language” that aren’t actually part of a full language system (i.e. varying degrees of gibberish) and then create an actual language built from those bits.

Along with David and me, six Patrons submitted sketches based on the data. Attached to this post, you’ll find all the sketches and the slides we used in the podcast.

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LangTime Chat, Episode 53: Conlanging with Pre-Existing Material, Part 1

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This episode begins a five-part miniseries exploring ways to conlang using pre-existing material.

In this episode, we discuss some of the processes we use when we need to incorporate material from books (material that was created without the structure of a language) in a conlang.

I set out a challenge for the month, which requires taking words and phrases in English and treating them as unknown entities, as source material collected from a book that needs a language built around it. Our next episode will present the results from that challenge.

If you are interested in participating and having your results included in the next episode, send me your work via email or a DM on Discord before July 27, 2024.

I’ve attached a PDF of the slides that accompany the episode, and I’ve also attached the Language Sketch document David and I will be using in three different formats (PDF, Pages, and Word). I have no idea how well the conversion from Pages to Word worked, so the formatting may be wonky on that version!

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LangTime Chat, Episode 52: The Conlang Guide

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I submitted the manuscript of the textbook I’ve been writing for four years now, so David chose the book as the topic for this podcast. We talk about the overall structure of the book, my goals in writing it, and some features in its current state.

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LangTime Chat, Episode 51: Glyph Design

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In this episode, we chat about designing glyphs. David designs two glyphs based on an image of a chicken that I drew as a starting point. One glyph is in the style of High Valyrian, while the second is a style inspired by Sarkezhe.

I’ve attached the images of the chickens that I drew for inspiration for David to base his work on.

We did our best to narrate a very visual task… We hope you enjoy!