Conlang Critic: The IS Language

after a couple of 100k hits, it’s back to basics with another episode of Conlang Critic. jan Misali reviews The IS Language, created by Stuart Davis. will the youtube recommendation algorithm treat this one as well as it treated w and let the bodies built to scale?

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[y.og.i]

maybe the two "I"s is why the language is called "Is"

[MarkusAldawn]

"Now let's look at the vowels"
*makes mildly distressed noises for 30 seconds*

[leem]

Next review my conlang called French, I created it to be a mix of Romance and Celtic languages, I hope you like it!

[michaelolsen]

I just have to say I love how literal you read text. I had to go back a couple times when you said "lenght" literally as written and then laughed so hard my sides hurt. Please never stop being this literal with reading the text of others.

[maezelbop]

The "wheelhouse" bit was hysterical

[TheRenegade...]

You better do OA when Artifexian is done / close to done

[Glass-vfil]

That one bit where you roast lojban. I cry every time.

[RedmarKerkhof]

Why do people assume everyone thinks in sentences and language?


Toddlers can think "There's a causal link between hitting the shiny red button on my toy and hearing a sound" without knowing any of those words. Cats can learn to look both ways before crossing a street because they have figured out cars drive there. They don't know the words, but they think.


So it can be with adults. Most people learn to think in words, but not all.

[mesebasterisk]

this video is good and all but "Jzh" gives me nightmares

[luciachayes]

I think that /ɜ/ is very clearly supposed to be /ʒ/, considering it's written very similarly to /s/, /ʃ/ and /ʑ/ in the writing system you showed. Aside from that, this is a very weird conlang, but I kind of like it?

[joaoful]

god, I was not prepared for the backwards "in my wheelhouse" and even less prepared for how quickly you got over it

[LivWildStyle]

IS is not meant to be comprehensible, IS just IS.

[SunroseStudios]

honestly the "subject-object duality" idea actually resonates with me a lot but i can see why it's a weird and confusing way of seeing things for a lot of people. imo it seems like more of a spiritual thing, rather than a philosophy of how one treats the world on a daily basis.

[alexandernyberg]

0:51 "It's not for communication, but for the expression of emotional experiences" basically just means "It's not for communication, but it is for communication"

[legitimatemedicine]

I really enjoyed this one. Though the language is messy, I loved how different the purpose of it is from most of the langs I've heard about

[QuikVidGuy]

every time someone tries to claim that humans naturally think in sentences i die a little. A lot of people think in words, but these words rarely form full sentences without conscious intent. Most of the time they're just sort of floating around in our language-association space until we decide to speak. And for a lot of people, the default is like... pictures, or... vague feelings of a personal space being somehow bent or pressured one way or another.

[IMawsme]

13:08 ever wanted to hear a drunk Russian speak Mandarin Chinese?

[BillieBell]

This IS an old video, and the language is still pretty underdeveloped. However, I do think that some of the odd things about IS phonology and orthography can be explained.
In the "Creating the Is Language" video, at 29 seconds in, he types a character in his IS font that doesn't appear on the chart, probably the actual click letter. And the fact that /ɜ/ is grouped with other fricatives and he consistently pronounces it as /ʃ~ʒ/suggests that it is probably supposed to be /ʒ/ not /ɜ/, and he mixed up the two IPA letters that look like a 3.

[Myrus_MBG]

8:24 VötGwd is a perfect description of Vötgil.

[teacul]

This video: There is not much information known about the IS language


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