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The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Re:Preventing communication is evil. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want to post this message to every NIH corporation and hipster start-up that needlessly invents another new computer language.

    Pro-tip, young cunts: your little bit of syntactic sugar does not warrant having to learn a whole new set of syntax, quirks and libraries. Whatever you're aiming for HAS been almost entirely or entirely done before, and at worst you need to adapt something that already exists. If you feel otherwise, it's because you work in a circle-jerk office and your marketing department is so good it's even convinced you.