LangTime Chat, Episode 45: Translation as a Language-Expanding Exercise

In this episode we continue work on our beaver names to try to get things done on Sovála in time for Kopikon then announce a new fun thing at the end!

In this episode, we chat about the Suh Ankripton language, which we created for James Gunn’s Superman movie. The presentation we use throughout the episode is attached. We apologize for the belated appearance of this episode and hope you enjoy learning more about the Kryptonian language we created for the film!

In this episode, we chat with Jonathan about the practice of conlanging in general, including how taking different approaches can be helpful! They talk about their experiences working with different processes (evolving a language, creating a language as is, creating languages that stretch the boundaries of how we might currently think about languages…). It was […]

Miles joins us for this riot of an episode, where we talk about the Western and Eastern dialects of Chielúú. As a forewarning, be ready for an earful of belly laughs near the end of the episode. The document Miles prepared with talking points about the dialects is attached to this post so you can […]

Nemo joins us for this episode to chat about aspect in Isfasori (the PDF discussed in the episode is attached to this post). Nemo did some really cool things in the system, so check out this episode to hear about a singing squirrel and jumping rabbit!

In this episode, Tabby joins us to talk about one of her orthographies and ideas for developing the shapes of the glyphs in different ways to reflect the materials available to the speakers. Tabby wrote a summary of the orthography as it is now and its historical development from older glyphs, which is attached here. […]

Jake Penny is our guest extraordinaire in this episode, where we talk about the comparative construction in Jake’s language Pánkáshku. Jake provides a quick introduction to the basic grammar of the language before they dive into the features of the comparative. A PDF of the relevant section of the language document is attached to this […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]