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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/

Jessie Peterson’s Conlang Year

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

Interview with Artifexian

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

Cursed Conlanging with Agma Schwa

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






Talking Movie Conlanging with Paul Frommer

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...  Read more »

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