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Alien Biospheres: Biomes?

I'm currently working on the next Alien Biospheres video, which should hopefully be out before the end of this month. It's going to lay out the groundwork for the first terrestrial ecosystems, but the plan for the episodes following this one are a bit up in the air; I was originally going to have the next episode be about adaptations to different environments/biomes, but looking at my notes for stuff I want to cover... there's no way I can fit it all into one video, so I was thinking of split...

Sneak Peek - Feature Focus: Verb Agreement

I was originally going to make this specifically about polypersonal agreement, but I realized a lot of the stuff I was talking about could be applied to other forms of verb agreement, so I made it about verb agreement in general.

This video will go public on Friday the 31st at 6 pm GMT. 

Sneak Peek: Alien Biospheres: Part 4 - The Invasion of Land

Sorry I couldn't get this one out sooner. I've been crazy busy over the festive period and had to deal with computer issues as well. This will go public at 5 pm UTC today, so enjoy a few hours of early access. 

Conlanging Case Study: Part 3 - Nonconcatenative Morphology

This was meant to be posted yesterday, but for some reason, this thing turned out to be an absolute nightmare to edit. It made my editing software crash twice, and at one point the file didn't save properly so I had to re-edit the footage all over again (the unedited runtime was 3 hours 13 minutes). 

As I mention in the video, I am using a new microphone. Let me know if it makes any audible difference.

Conlang Showcase Extra: Edun

Some fun facts about Edun that didn’t make it into the video:

1. The word achkh, “fire”, which also means "soul", is onomatopoeic. It’s supposed to sound like the crackling of burning wood.

2. The derivational suffix “-ost”, which turns a stem into the noun that the stem produces (e.g. achkh, “fire” > achkost “ashes”), came from the Proto-Thirean root hoohltu, which means “crop”, “fruit”, or “h...

Conlang Casestudy: Part 2 - Vowel Harmony

The whole time I was recording this, I was using my cursor to point to parts of the screen, but after reviewing the footage, apparently the cursor is invisible. It's too late to fix it for this video, but in future, I'll see if I can do something about that.

This video will go public tomorrow at around 6:00 UTC. 

Conlanging Case Study: Part 1 - Goals and Tense System

I sat down and recorded myself conlanging for 4 hours yesterday, and after editing the whole thing, I'm not sure if it's any good. What do you think? 

Sneak Peek: Alien Biospheres: Part 3 - Cladistics and Ecology

Took me long enough. Thanks for your patience, everyone. I rewrote this script about eight or nine times and I'm still not too happy with it. And I was still recovering from my chest infection when I did the recording so the audio may sound weird in some places. Let me know what you think. Unless I or any of you can spot any errors, this will go public tomorrow.

Update

I've been battling a chest infection for the past few weeks, and so, very frustratingly, have been unable to record the script for my next video. I'm going to try my hardest to get the new video done for mid-October.  Apologies for the delay.

While I've got you, I'm thinking of starting work on a new conlang soon. Would anyone be interested if I recorded my work process? 

Conlang Showcase Extra: Negation in Nekāchti

A very warm welcome to all the patrons. I am immensely grateful for your support and I offer my sincerest thanks to you all. To celebrate you being here, I thought I’d pen my first ever Patreon post. 

For my Nekāchti Showcase video, there was plenty of stuff I wanted to include but had to cut to keep the video at a reasonable length. One of those things was elaborating on the particulars of Nekāchti’s system of negation. You may recall from the showcase that Nekāchti’s ten...