Me, Jessie Peterson, Biblaridion, Keras, and Jake Penny in front of the Rosetta Stone.

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Me, Jessie Peterson, Biblaridion, Keras, and Jake Penny in front of the Rosetta Stone.
This Tuesday, join me and Jake of @letshaveabouba as we livestream the creation of a language for Capybaras! It’ll be at 4:30-6:00 PM EDT, and the link below should show you what time it is for you:
It’ll be the first of two parts in which Jake and I revisit a language sketch that we started at the beginning of last year. The project stalled for various reasons but we both really liked a lot of the ideas we came up with for it, so we’re going back to it!
We’ll start by looking over what we’ve done so far to see what we can do with it. That might mean picking up where we left off, competely restarting with some of the same basic ideas, or, most likely, something in between. Regardless, it should be a fun time! I’m sure we’ll stay completely on topic and won’t get side-tracked at all.
As a little preview, here are some key words in Proto-Capybaran and the modern language, or at least the latest stage we got to:
*dzuət → dzᵝot “to speak”
*neʔmui → nèmwi “squirrel monkey”
*kasiil → kasíl “spider monkey”
*dzəur → dzór “river”
*xər → ɣr “rock”
*nəʔ → n “nose”
Let’s Have A Baby | Dad!Shawn | Part 10
soft and fluffy, sharing the news with Shawn’s parents
You sat around the table with Shawn’s family, eating dinner in silence. Shawn was to your left and Aaliyah to your right, Karen and Manny across from you. You were waiting for a cue from Shawn, something to signal the conversation you’d come over here to have. Karen was eyeing you, waiting for it, but Manny and Aaliyah were completely oblivious to the child growing in your stomach.
Waiting for Shawn to speak up, your fingers rubbed little circles on his denim-clad thigh underneath the table. He laced your hand with his, bringing it up to his lips and planting a soft kiss on each of your knuckles before he cleared his throat.
“There’s a reason we’re here, guys,” Shawn spoke, calm as ever, meanwhile you felt like your stomach was about to fall out of your ass. How the hell was he keeping his shit together right now?
“Mmmm?” Manny responded, twirling his fork in his spaghetti. You watched as Karen set her utensils down on her plate, resting her chin on her hands as she fought the smile creeping up her lips.
“There’s kind of something we need to tell you,” you added, sitting up a bit in your chair. Aaliyah remained silent, unsure of what the hell was about to come out of your mouth.
Do you have any personal language making projects that you fiddle with as of currently?
I appreciate the sentiment of the question, but (a) no language project I've ever worked on, personal or otherwise, is finished, so even if I haven't worked on a language in over ten years it doesn't mean I'm not working on it; and (b) I draw absolutely no distinction between languages I've created for television shows and films and those I've created on my own. I consider every language I've ever created an open project, and I'm liable to work on any of them at any time. In fact, I'm going to have to dust off Megdevi as I agreed to use it in a relay coming up next year…
Hey, I wanted to share some conlang news with you all. A friend of mine named Jake Penny just released a video describing their creation of a new conlang—Pankashku—for the movie Madame Web.
Now if you've actually seen Madame Web (unlikely, I know), you may recall not hearing a conlang in it at all. This is because the actual Pankashku dialogue that Jake translated for the film was cut in its entirety, and Jake was not credited.
As a professional conlanger, I can tell you this does happen, and it always sucks, but it especially sucks when it happens with your first and only job. Jake isn't alone this. Bill Welden created a conlang for the movie Noah, and it, too, was cut and Bill wasn't credited. Both were paid, and, of course, the contract states that your work will be used at the company's discretion (which includes not at all), so it wasn't like they were taken advantage of, but when your work isn't used and you're not credited it means no one hears about you, and industry word of mouth doesn't spread to get you future work. It really, really sucks, given that there are so few opportunities for conlang artists to be compensated for their work.
That is why I'm sharing this here! If you're interested, please give it a watch, but if not, please reblog it around, if you would. A lot of work goes into creating a language, and the least we can hope is that our work will be heard/seen and appreciated.
Also, if you'd like to support Jake, they and Miles Wronkovich have a YouTube series/podcast which you can support on Patreon here.
Thanks for your time! <3
Kopikon II Presenters: Jake Penny
Kopikon II is about three months away, so I'm presenting each speaker in the order they’ll be presenting on October 10th at the University of Edinburgh. Up second: Jake Penny.
Jake is the cohost of the YouTube series Let's Have a Bouba, which streams every Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (and, yes, today, is Tuesday!). Jake is a long time conlanger with an academic background in language and linguistics, and they also contributed the language Pankashkú to Sony's Madame Web, only to have it cut (for that whole story check out their video recap here).
Jake will be batting second at Kopikon II for us at 1:50 p.m. at the University of Edinburgh (George Square), October 10th, 2025. To register, go here. The full schedule is listed below:
1:00 p.m. Opening remarks by David & Jessie
1:10 p.m. Keras Saryan
1:50 p.m. Jake Penny
2:30 p.m. Biblaridion
3:10 p.m. Intermission (20 minutes)
3:30 p.m. David Peterson
4:10 p.m. Jessie Peterson
4:50 p.m. Closing remarks by David & Jessie
The latest Fiat Lingua is a grammar of Yaatláw, a language created by Jake Penny (creator of the Pankashku language from Madame Webb) and Miles Wronkovich, collectively the pair behind the YouTube series Let's Have a Bouba. It's good stuff; check it out!
The second half of the second let's have a relay, this time we see David fulfil his promise to use Megdevi, and see if this time the structu
In two and a half hours Jake's ring of the Let's Have a Bouba Relay will be unveiled, and you'll get to hear the first text in Megdevi in 20 years. You...may want to miss it.