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by Ollock
Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:53 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #61: amman îar)

Hey Ollock, out of curiosity, what are your listener statistics like? Is your audience still growing, or has it plateaued? Have you thought about promoting the podcast in any way? The listenership has been growing fairly steadily if you look at the long-term, but we are still very small. We got 466...
by Ollock
Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:51 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #61: amman îar)

I haven't finished the podcast yet so I don't know if you address it or not, but on the subject of that email that you've pasted into the description, it's always been a tradition in Shakespearean theatre that American actors retain their native accents; the thinking behind this is that the America...
by Ollock
Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:17 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #60: Syllable and Word Sh

My current project will probably be ready for view in a month, if I keep working on it at a good pace. I almost never publish conlangs (I'm a doodler, so I'm never feel like showing my stuff), but I am determined to make something showable this time. If you'd be willing to keep a slot open for me b...
by Ollock
Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:13 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #60: Syllable and Word Sh

I listened back to the review. A few comments. "What's his name?" "Oh - what is his name?" "aaa - Rik something?" "Rik Roots ..." "Sounds like a pseudonym ..." "Rik Fraud ..." Not verbatim, but I get the point. I honestly did think it was a pseudonym, which I have absolutely no problem. To me it was...
by Ollock
Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:37 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #60: Syllable and Word Sh

I think this is a general issue with the podcast. Many conlangers, even if their languages are publicly visible, are very sensitive to public scrutiny and criticism by people who are not very familiar with their work. I know it's extra work, but I think every podcast that features a language should...
by Ollock
Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:33 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #60: Syllable and Word Sh

I'm still sore about the fiasco they made with my name, though. I'll probably not be offering up any of my conlangs for their future consideration. What fiasco? Did I have trouble pronouncing it? We generally don't make a habit of making fun of people's names. If I recall correctly, someone on the ...
by Ollock
Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:13 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #60: Syllable and Word Sh

I'm still sore about the fiasco they made with my name, though. I'll probably not be offering up any of my conlangs for their future consideration. What fiasco? Did I have trouble pronouncing it? We generally don't make a habit of making fun of people's names. Also, I am still waiting on that episo...
by Ollock
Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:06 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #60: Syllable and Word Sh

Just downloaded it, haven't listened yet... but noooooo, I love it when you have looooong shows. Now I can't spread out my listening over a couple of days as I have been able to before. Whoever suggested 82 minutes as an informal limit is wrong – not enough people use CDs anymore to justify that. B...
by Ollock
Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:31 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #59: Loan Words)

Listened to this before going to bed yesterday (darn you for keeping me up later than I should be awake; I overslept because of your addictive podcast!). The latest episode. I was surprised you didn't talk more about how conservative languages like Icelandic, Finnish and French go about making up n...
by Ollock
Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:41 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #59: Loan Words)

Jipí wrote:Oh BTW, doesn't the header graphic change at random anymore? It only keeps showing me the Kamakawi rendition of "Conlangery".
Fixed. Somehow it got reset.
by Ollock
Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:57 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Aesthetics of a Proto-Language
Replies: 58
Views: 13715

Re: Aesthetics of a Proto-Language

Also, which Chinese? Mandarin? Cantonese? One of the other dozens of "dialects" that are basically distinct languages if they weren't all spoken in the same country? When I say Chinese, I usually mean Mandarin, but your point is valid. The fact is that most of the Chinese languages have fairly simi...
by Ollock
Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:36 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Aesthetics of a Proto-Language
Replies: 58
Views: 13715

Re: Aesthetics of a Proto-Language

I didn't mean to imply that Proto-Langages tended to be simpler; as a matter of fact, more technologically primitive cultures have a tendency to have greater morphological complexity than modern, literate, industrialized societies who tend toward the analytic. So, Latin was spoken by apemen and Geo...
by Ollock
Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:43 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Aesthetics of a Proto-Language
Replies: 58
Views: 13715

Re: Aesthetics of a Proto-Language

There is a very good reason, when doing historical conlanging, to start with the proto-lang and work forwards, rather than the other way around. It makes things easier.
by Ollock
Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:00 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 177278

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #57: Animacy and Agency)

Glancing through the archives, I don't see an episode about pragmatics. Did I miss it, or have you seriously gone this long without addressing that topic? Also, you should ask Salmoneus on, because I've always wondered what he sounds like. Pragmatics is -- weird to talk about. We kind of touch on i...
by Ollock
Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:49 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Kozea Daily - Shitty movies in a conlang
Replies: 130
Views: 30850

Re: Kozea Daily - Shitty movies in a conlang

Have you guys been getting better at pronunciation? I heard trills and a uvular plosive -- not stuff that I heard in these before.
by Ollock
Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:16 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
Replies: 197
Views: 44861

Re: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan

Is it about how elaborateness? Maybe Arka is their featured conlang? Nope. I can't glean enough from those lessons to say anything useful about it, so it's not even on our list (they've tried with the emails). my hunch: a) the "welcome to Conlangery" is in Arka. b) there is a mention of language so...
by Ollock
Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:35 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
Replies: 197
Views: 44861

Re: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan

I'm gonna have a weird feeling when the next Conlangery episode comes out tomorrow. You'll see why.