Bonus 12: Creating languages for fun and learning

The paper on Klingon's stress can be found here: http://klingonska.org/academic/windsor+stewart-2017-can_unnatural_stress_patterns_be_learned.pdf

Have you guys seen the typological in-joke in Klingon?

Yeah, it's so good! I'm trying to get others at work into it, usually by sharing unusual etymologies on Slack

Lingthusiasm

History of English is a great podcast! Lauren convinced me to give it a listen the first time we met irl (the same time we decided to start this one!) and I worked my way through it over several months. It's like taking a whole course or two on the topic, very systematic!

Thanks for doing an episode on conlanging - I really enjoyed it!! You mentioned in the episode that many linguistics enthusiasts get their start through conlanging, and I'm definitely one of them! Actually, you might be able to say that it may have had a hand in my career in programming as well, as some of the first prgorams I wrote were to help me work on my first conlang (which, yes, was largely a relex of English which some bits of German mixed in!). One resource for fictional conlaning I've come to appreciate lately is the History of English Podcast (which Gretchen shared early last year on Twitter and I have been catching up on - thanks Gretchen!) - learning about the etymologies of various words and phrases and how history and daily life influenced them is both daunting and inspiring as a conlanger. I highly recomend it whether you want to get into conlanging or not!

Thanks for doing an episode on conlanging - I really enjoyed it!! You mentioned in the episode that many linguistics enthusiasts get their start through conlanging, and I'm definitely one of them! Actually, you might be able to say that it may have had a hand in my career in programming as well, as some of the first prgorams I wrote were to help me work on my first conlang (which, yes, was largely a relex of English which some bits of German mixed in!). One resource for fictional conlaning I've come to appreciate lately is the History of English Podcast (which Gretchen shared early last year on Twitter and I have been catching up on - thanks Gretchen!) - learning about the etymologies of various words and phrases and how history and daily life influenced them is both daunting and inspiring as a conlanger. I highly recommend it whether you want to get into conlanging or not!