Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #28: “Correlatives” (well, mostly indefinites)


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A very special guest host joins us for this episode, where we try to talk about correlatives as a thing, but as correlatives is actually many different things, we end up just talking about indefinites the whole time.  We have much more

Top of Show Greeting: pr̝̊ɛmɪsl

Links and Resources:

  • Esperanto correlatives
  • WALS on Indefinites
  • Featured Conlang: Gomain

    Feedback:

    Koppa Dasao (comment on #26): Good news. Was at my check up Tuesday, and my kidneys are patching up. Now I got more than half-a-kidney sustaining me

     

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    James Campbell: Enjoyed episode 26 a great deal – no offence, but the editing definitely
    helps the “listener experience”. The whole thing flows so much better.And yes, it looks like Basque does have a vigesimal system, and a pretty
    sane one to boot. For a truly twisted vigesimal counting system, see Danish
    (a system that was borrowed into/influenced Faroese, with further
    extraordinary phonetic mangling – although it looks like Faroese has largely
    changed over to a decimal system now).Owen: Way back, William mentioned using LaTeX and LyX to create documents and lexicons. I responded at the time to say I was trying those out, but I am struggling to figure out how I would convert a spreadsheet lexicon into dictionary form and wondered if William has any insight/ideas of how I can do this.Right now, my lexicon is a GoogleDoc spreadsheet with several columns:  word–pronunciation–englishequiv—wordtype—notes etc.  I would love to be able to present this in “OED” format, with nicer, longer descriptions and a uniform style.Thanks again for the podcast and your shared insights into language in general.

     

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