Rerun: Building languages with Dr. Jessie Sams
Exolore: facts-based fictional worldbuilding
English - December 14, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutes - 103 MBScience Education Fiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Moiya returns to her conversation about constructing languages. They talk mouth and nose shapes, the relevance of trees, and the brain-melting subject of sentence word order in different languages.
HOSTED by Dr. Moiya McTier (@GoAstroMo), astrophysicist and folklorist
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Dr. Jessie Sams is a linguist and conlanger who has helped make languages for shows including Motherland: Fort Salem and Vampire Academy.MESSAGES
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How would you like to swim in an ocean ruled by matriarchal squid, or fly over a planet as it rotates with a swarm of migrating wasps? No, it's not the latest VR craze (... yet); it's Exolore! Exolore helps you imagine other worlds with the help of facts and science. Every other week, host Dr. Moiya McTier invites experts to build a world from scratch or sits down with a fiction fan to dive deep into their favorite worlds. Every episode will make you laugh, go "huh?" and appreciate how special our world really is.
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