Interview with Suzette Haden Elgin
Sai and Sally interview Suzette Haden Elgin about her language Láadan—its genesis, its goals, and its status as a linguistic experiment. They also discuss the nature of gender bias in language, and...
View ArticleLCC2 – David Peterson – The Evolution of Sidaan
High Quality Video (.mpg) – Slides (.ppt) – Sidaan and IPA fonts (.ttf) – Program (.pdf) Sai speaking: David’s not kidding when he says he’s a serial monogamist conlanger—’prolific’ is more like it....
View ArticleInterview with Arika Okrent
Sai interviews Arika Okrent about her new book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language. Arika...
View ArticleLCC2 – Clint Hutchinson – Universal Semantic Markers
High Quality Video (.mpg) – Program (.pdf) It’s funny. Many of the conlangers in the audience during Clint’s talk (myself included) were immediately fascinated by the machine Clint used when he was a...
View ArticleLCC2 – John Quijada – Language Personalities
High Quality Video (.mpg) – Slides (.pps) – Handout (.doc) – Program (.pdf) Everyone who saw John Quijada’s LCC1 talk will undoubtedly remember it forever. I know I will. John’s LCC1 talk set the bar...
View ArticleWhere’ve we been?
mp3 Hi, this is David Peterson from the LCS podcast. You may have noticed that the last podcast (John Quijada’s LCC2 talk [which was excellent, by the way!]) was the first in some…six months? Podcasts...
View ArticleInterview with Paul Frommer
David and Sylvia interview Paul Frommer about his creation of the language Na’vi for the movie Avatar. We discuss his experience working on set, and working with movie folks, as well as the language...
View ArticleInterview with Jeff Burke
David interviews Jeff Burke, the creator of the Proto Central Mountain family of languages, and author of The Spirit-Weaver, a novel Jeff has been working on for the past fifteen years. In this...
View ArticleInterview with Paul Varkuza
David interviews Paul Varkuza about his language Varkuzan. We discuss his language, its name—his name—and the role his synesthesia played in the process of his language’s creation. .mp3 recording...
View ArticleInterview with Sheri Wells-Jensen
David and Sai interview Sheri Wells-Jensen about her work in the world of conlanging, and her work as a linguist at Bowling Green State University. .mp3 recording | Dr. Wells-Jensen’s Webpage Talk...
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