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

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

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/

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

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

• 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

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, no. 3 (August 1, 1999): 739–67. https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556133.

Li, Wentian. “Analyses of Baby Name Popularity Distribution in U.S. for the Last 131 Years.” Complexity 18, no. 1 (September 2012): 44–50. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21409.

Wang, Ding, Haibo Cheng, Ping Wang, Xinyi Huang, and Gaopeng Jian. “Zipf’s Law in Passwords.” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 12, no. 11 (November 2017): 2776–91. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2017.2721359.

Links

The Tweet that stared this: https://twitter.com/JPSoucy/status/1638747703332175872?s=20 Genlangs and Zipf’s law data https://github.com/Justin-Diamond/genlangs-and-zipfs

Law brief article https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22/

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.

I’m announcing a new streaming series: Tongues and Runes. You can find the first stream scheduled here.

George talks to CD Covington about her upcoming book about linguistic worldbuilding, funding through Kickstarter.

Links:

• The Kickstarter
• SFF Linguistics YouTube Channel
• The Tor Column
• A post about the Kickstarter