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Conlang Critic (Web Video)
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Conlang Critic is an online Video Review Show created by Mitch Halley, a.k.a. jan Misali. It reviews various constructed languages (conlangs), while Misali gives his thoughts and opinions about them. There is a playlist of the full series, starting with Episode One: Lojban.Conlangs that we have pages sort of about, that the series has covered, include: Klingon Na'vi Toki Pona Esperanto, the Universal Language Dovazhul Dothraki Sindarin Quenya High Valyrian | |
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Holding Both Sides of the Conversation | |
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Holding Both Sides of the Conversation: Averted in the Lingwa de Planeta episode's "What’s the Most Commonly Spoken Language Whose Consonant Inventory Is Incompatible with That of This Particular International Auxiliary Language?" segment. | |
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Broke the Rating Scale | |
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Broke the Rating Scale: Informally with Poliespo. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: The host of "The Perfect Language [Epic]" says "woo" every so often. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Episode 30, on Sindarin, features Artifexian, a well-known worldbuilding YouTuber. Misali later jokes that Josh from NativLang will have a segment in the video. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Misali points out that the name of Vötgil, a conlang designed as a simplified version of English, translates to "the opposite of English". | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Sambahsa's verbs are characterized like this, with Misali trying to avoid discussing them for as long as possible. | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: Done with the titular conlang for the intro of the Toki Pona episode, to demonstrate Misali's fluency in the language and help argue that it's easy to learn. | |
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I Am Not Shazam | |
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I Am Not Shazaminvoked: jan Misali doesn't like being called Conlang Critic; it's just the name of the show. Eventually defied as the YouTube channel was renamed from "Conlang Critic" to "jan Misali", and its focus shifted to a wider variety of content anyway. | |
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Word Salad Philosophy | |
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Word Salad Philosophy: Some of the reasoning behind The IS Language is treated as such. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: The five vowel system, /i u e o a/. jan Misali calls this "the most sensible vowel system for an IAL to use, and there’s not really any reason to use anything else, unless you wanna go for a three vowel system." Thus, he rapidly runs out of interesting things to say about it. | |
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Time-Passes Montage | |
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The segment on Sambahsa's verbs opens with a giant conjugation table, then devolves into a montage of overlapping passages from the language's densely written reference grammar. | |
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Rock Bottom | |
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Rock Bottom: Misali can't imagine a worse conlang than Poliespo, describing it as the bottom of a chasm. He tries to comfort ex-conlangers by telling them their attempts at conlangs couldn't possibly be as bad. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: jan Misali calls joke conlang kay(f)bop(t) "the best possible type of bad conlang". Because it's bad on purpose and is worse than Ithkuil is good, it becomes the best artlang by technicality, where it remains until the ranking system is abandoned seventeen episodes later. | |
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Death of the Author | |
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Death of the Authorinvoked: Discussed in the Iqglic episode. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Tense | |
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Suspiciously Specific Tense: A similar effect is achieved in the Klingon episode, when jan Misali foreshadows that "we probably won't cover a more famous conlang until either LATE FEBRUARY OR EARLY MARCH 2017". | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Some older episodes don't go into much detail about some aspects of the conlang. It's also notorious for not really caring that much about the grammar. To a lesser extent, the rankings of conlangs among Seasons 1 and 2. By Season 3, which started with Dothraki, jan Misali decided to drift away from this methodology, focusing more on how he feels about conlangs individually, as opposed to how he feels about how they stack up compared to one another. | |
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Blunt "No" | |
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Blunt "No": On disambiguating between English and Iqglic: | |
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Blowing a Raspberry | |
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Blowing a Raspberry: Implied while reviewing the joke conlang kay(f)bop(t); after making up a bunch of scientific-sounding names for the facepalm (faciomanual click), clap (percussive bimanual stop), left-click, and right-click (sinistral and dextral lateral clicks), he laments that the language didn't include a "linguolabial trill". note If you're not familiar with how phonemes are named, trills are produced by directing air over an articulator so that it vibrates, and the articulator in this case would be the tongue and lips. | |
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No True Scotsman | |
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An Esperantist named Anthony McCarthy started a comment thread questioning Misali's fluency in conlangs, refusing to take Toki Pona for an answer. Misali found this entertaining, and has referenced the thread every so often on the channel through running gags and remixes. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: VötGil gets treated like this, with jan Misali lovingly(?) cracking jokes at its expense on occasion. An Esperantist named Anthony McCarthy started a comment thread questioning Misali's fluency in conlangs, refusing to take Toki Pona for an answer. Misali found this entertaining, and has referenced the thread every so often on the channel through running gags and remixes. | |
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" | |
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Lampshaded when conlangs invent their own labels for parts of speech. From the Loglan and KÄ“len episodes, respectively: | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: Included in the Conlang Critic series playlist is the jocular "The Perfect Language [Epic]". It has a different host, self-referred to as "jan Mike Wazowski" and "jan Mike Sullivan", and recorded using OBS and Windows Notepad instead of a slideshow format. Although the video is purportedly a review of English, the language described is oligosynthetic, has only four phonemes, and is written with punctuation symbols and the digit 5 instead of Latin letters. The Viossa episode uses a different format due to covering an artificial pidgin with no rigid or written rules. The episode plays out like an audio-based documentary, cutting between interviews of several members of Viossa's community. Ultimately, jan Misali expresses that rating the language would be missing its point, so the verdict boils down to "Viossa reminded me why I love linguistics." | |
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Manual Misprint | |
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Manual Misprintinvoked: Integrated into the show when a passage in the conlang's reference grammar appears to be outright false, whether accidentally or deliberately. | |
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Significant Name Overlap | |
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Significant Name Overlap: jan Misali finds it difficult to introduce the conlang Iqglic, whose name is pronounced exactly like "English" and was never officially given any way to distinguish the two in spoken speech. | |
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Dark Horse Victory | |
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Dark Horse Victory: The philosophical conlang Toki Pona would otherwise be reviewed as an artlang, but due to its simplicity, learnability, and avoidance of common IAL pitfalls, Misali considers it to outclass all conlangs designed for international communication. As a result, it gets ranked as the best interlang, a category it wasn't even going for, retaining this position until the ranking system's eventual abandonment. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's a series about analyzing, and often reviewing, the design of constructed languages. | |
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Target Audience | |
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Most of the Lingwa de Planeta episode is dedicated to informing new viewers, subscribed from non-linguistics videos on the jan Misali channel, on the basics of linguistics and conlanging that the show deals with. Although there were explanations of some concepts before that episode, the show and the basic segments had no formal introduction until that episode four years in, on the assumption that its Target Audience was already familiar with the subject matter. | |
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Conlang | |
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Conlang: The premise of the show is to cover and critique these. | |
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Existential Horror | |
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Existential Horror: The High Valyrian episode has very light undertones of this, compared to the unquestioned formula of prior episodes. The script repeatedly dips into questioning the point of the series, the self-perceived lack of meaningful commentary, jan Misali's qualifications, whether he is burnt out on the series, and why the episode was so highly requested. However, this meta-commentary is mostly to pad out the video, as Misali didn't have enough to say about the conlang itself. Before the episode came out, he had already announced that he would be taking back creative control as to which conlangs are reviewed, and how often Conlang Critic episodes are made. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
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Overly Long Name: A recurring game show–styled segment is named "What’s the Most Commonly Spoken Language Whose Consonant Inventory Is Incompatible with That of This Particular International Auxiliary Language?" In the YouTube chapter titles, it's initialized to "WtMCSLWCIIIwToTPIAL?", which is shorter but arguably all the more unwieldy. | |
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Please Select New City Name | |
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Please Select New City Name: Inverted with urges for IALs to use endonymsnote An endonym is a name for a place, language, etc. that is used by its own inhabitants or speakers. Contrast exonyms: "Germany" is an exonym, while "Deutschland" is an endonym, the country's name in its official language. for country and language names. The recurring "what do you call Germany?" and "what do you call Japan?" segments are dedicated to this. | |
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You Keep Using That Word | |
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You Keep Using That Word: jan Misali isn't particularly amused when a conlang renames a part of speech, then proceeds to use that part of speech exactly as it's used in any other language despite the new name. The most notable is the "relationals" of Kelen, which are basically verbs used slightly different than straight-up verbs. He wouldn't have had as much of a problem with this except for Kelen advertising itself as a verbless language. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Misali realizes the similarities between Conlang Critic and the official Vötgil video lessons… | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Used rather blatantly to lead up to the Esperanto episode without explicitly revealing an Esperanto episode. | |
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Fantastic Naming Convention | |
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Fantastic Naming Convention: The Drsk episode discusses how the way its speakers are named reflects on what is valuable to its conculture. | |
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Genuine Human Hide | |
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Genuine Human Hide: Zese is accused of being a programming language wearing a spoken language's skin. | |
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Separated by a Common Language | |
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Separated by a Common Language: The phonemic differences between English dialects come up often regarding conlangs based on English, as well as those that define their vowels with examples of English words instead of using the absolute letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet. To highlight the shortcomings of this approach, Misali is quick to demonstrate when General American, Received Pronunciation, and his own dialect pronounce those vowels differently. | |
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Spell My Name with a "The" | |
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Spell My Name with a "The": The first episode opens with "welcome to the Conlang Critic". This was dropped thereafter. | |
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Men Are Generic, Women Are Special | |
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Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: To jan Misali's chagrin, this tends to crop up in IALs that base their noun classes on European natural languages, like by treating masculine as the default grammatical gender and using a feminizing suffix. Misali contends that the conlangs' creators had the opportunity to correct this by designing a more neutral system, and gives credit to Ido for doing so. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: Inverted in the Lingua Franca Nova episode. jan Misali compliments the stylistic choice of writing the voiceless velar stop, /k/, with C instead of K. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Subverted in the Ygyde episode. Misali clarifies that calling Ygyde "the Linux of conlangs" isn't a potshot at Linux users, but a direct quote from Ygyde's reference grammar. | |
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Overused Running Gag | |
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Overused Running Gag: When it comes to the Zese conlang, "you know what Zese!" This is even used twice in the previous episode, where Misali says "dang I hope you liked that pun because I’m gonna make it so many times in the next episode, you have no idea." | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: From the Zese episode: | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Points out in his review of Native Tongue's Láadan that, despite being designed as a feminist language, it still divides genders into "male" and "not-male" (with no room for nonbinary people). | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: Conlangs are typically introduced with a pithy description alongside their name. Sometimes this is a literal translation of the conlang's name into English (Sambahsa-Mundialect becomes "the same language world language"), or a descriptive phrase taken from the reference material. | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better! | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better!: Misali hadn't made a conlang before, but was so disappointed by Futurese that he inflicted this upon himself and started making his own hypothetical future version of English. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Quite a few to Rhythm Heaven, courtesy of jan Misali being a fan of the series. The stinger to Season 3 episodes is set to a rendition of "Dreams of Our Generation" from Rhythm Heaven Fever. The theme song to "What’s the Most Commonly Spoken Language Whose Consonant Inventory Is Incompatible with That of This Particular International Auxiliary Language?" is the theme to Quiz from Rhythm Tengoku. The Ido episode includes one to Pannenkoek2012, which is extended with an arrangement of the "File Select" music from Super Mario 64. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: As demonstrated in the page quote, the jabs about the series getting facts wrong extend to its tagline. From the Volapük episode: | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
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Damned by Faint Praise: In the Lingwa de Planeta episode, he thinks the titular IAL is "halfway there to being better than just ‘okay’". | |
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Once Original, Now Common | |
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Once Original, Now Commoninvoked: The sentiment paints some of Misali's thoughts on Quenya. | |
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Video Review Show | |
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Video Review Show: Of conlangs, naturally. Originally, conlangs were ranked amongst compared to one another, but the show downplayed the "review" aspect at the start of Season 3, instead opting to rate conlangs on an individual basis. As of the High Valyrian episode, it seems this approach is being further downplayed. | |
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Musical Episode | |
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Musical Episode: The Solresol episode, as the conlang in question is based on the notes of the major scale, and can be communicated through mediums such as solfège, song, and instrumental performance. Misali combines all three of these options when pronouncing Solresol words. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Delivered in Sarcasm Mode, on Novial's reform: | |
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Infodump | |
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Infodump: The segment on Sambahsa's verbs opens with a giant conjugation table, then devolves into a montage of overlapping passages from the language's densely written reference grammar. Most of the Lingwa de Planeta episode is dedicated to informing new viewers, subscribed from non-linguistics videos on the jan Misali channel, on the basics of linguistics and conlanging that the show deals with. Although there were explanations of some concepts before that episode, the show and the basic segments had no formal introduction until that episode four years in, on the assumption that its Target Audience was already familiar with the subject matter. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: In the Ido episode, jan Misali briefly considers making one for the five vowel system, as he has run out of interesting things to say about it. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: The Esperanto episode seems to use a version of this, failing to mention the last name of its creator, L. L. Zamenhof, anywhere in the script. He is instead called Dr. Hopernote from his pseudonym, Esperanto ("one who hopes"), which became the language's name and "Dr. Lejzer"note which could be for fun, because it sounds like "laser". In other episodes, First-Name Basis is used to condescending effect. | |
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Tagline | |
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As demonstrated in the page quote, the jabs about the series getting facts wrong extend to its tagline. | |
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No Sense of Humor | |
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No Sense of Humor: Misali suggests this of Esperanto's community while commenting on the slightly nonstandard translations the episode has used. At least one Esperantist commenter took the matter very seriously anyway, with their comments becoming a Running Gag on the channel. | |
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Facepalm | |
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Facepalm: The joke conlang kay(f)bop(t) uses the facepalm as part of its phonology. While reviewing the language, Misali coined the pseudo-linguistic term "faciomanual click" for anyone who wants to sound properly scientific when discussing it, although it is more accurately a percussive consonant. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The word vore, due to a freak coincidence being the Lojban word for 42, such as in the episode on the language, and then when using 3042 in the Volapük episode, and then there's mentioning how "foto" is 42 in Loglan. Jabs at Vötgil, one of the first conlangs reviewed, which sat at the bottom of the rankings for 28 episodes. Whenever a conlang uses the five vowel system, jan Misali doesn't have anything else to say about it. Several excerpts from around the top of Anthony McCarthy's comment thread, starting in episode Fifteen: The "What’s the Most Commonly Spoken Language Whose Consonant Inventory Is Incompatible with That of This Particular International Auxiliary Language?" segment, which gets especial attention in the Novial episode. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: In the intro to the Iqglic episode, Misali has some trouble introducing the language, due to it being pronounced the same as "English", which he explains thus: | |
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