The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:59PM from the how-would-you-say-it? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: David J. Peterson is fluent in eight languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Esperanto, Arabic and American Sign Language, but it is the languages he's created that gives him notoriety. He created Dothraki, Giant, and High Valyrian for Game of Thrones, Shiväisith for Thor: The Dark World, and four different languages for the TV show Defiance. Peterson recently sat down with NPR to talk about inventing languages for a living, and offers some advice on how to make your own.

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Re:Feel free to translate this haiku by mwvdlee · 2015-09-27 21:43 · Score: 5, Funny

I'll try a translation into english:
Gender preference,
parent poster is unsure.
Fears he might like men.

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Re:Unue! by Foobar+of+Borg · 2015-09-27 23:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Shaka, when the walls fell.

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Re:Unue! by yodleboy · 2015-09-28 01:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Vi parolas Esperanton , Kapitano Rimmer?