Conlangs — or constructed languages — bring a feeling of reality to the worlds of science fiction.
For some people, learning Dothraki or Klingon shows their true dedication. But what are conlangs like? What can they tell us about natural languages, and should you learn one?
In the first of a two-part series, Linguist Daniel Midgley gets geeky on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Show notes
A successful interaction with dolphins?http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-working-on-humantodolphin-translator-report-first-successful-interaction-9228552.html
http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/04/dolphin-to-human-translator/360041/
Elven phrases
http://www.grey-company.org/Circle/language/phrase.htm
http://www.arwen-undomiel.com/elvish/phrases.html
Would you like to learn Quenya? (Oops, I just realised I pronounced Quenya wrong.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya
Prehaps Sindarin is more your style.
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/cases.html
About Mark Okrand, the inventor of Klingon
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Marc_Okrand
Learn from the Klingon Language Institute
http://www.kli.org/
Here are some everyday phrases
http://www.kli.org/tlh/phrases.html
New Klingon words
http://www.kli.org/tlh/newwords.html
There was a native speaker of Klingon once.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/08/a-man-once-tried-to-raise-his-son-as-a-native-speaker-in-klingon/
George Martin, talking about Dothraki
http://grrm.livejournal.com/148593.html
How do you create a language from scratch? David J. Peterson explains.
http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/06/language-creation-for-game-of-thrones/
High Valyrian
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/read-our-blog/game-of-thrones-inventing-the-high-valyrian-language-for-tv.html
More about Dothraki and High Valyrian
http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/game-of-thrones-dothraki-language-inventor.html
Arika Okrent’s article about Dothraki
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49763/7-fun-facts-about-dothraki-language-game-thrones
David J. Peterson’s blog
http://www.dothraki.com/
Learn Na’vi, if you want to.
http://wiki.learnnavi.org/Main_Page
More about Na’vi, by the creator, Paul Frommer.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1977
Mr Longbottom longbottomed.
That imgur link
http://imgur.com/gallery/juPWY
Fin Review: Arms buildup | Buys planes | World is fukt
http://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/newspaper-prints-world-is-fukt-on-front-page
Abject apology
http://mumbrella.com.au/afr-apologises-world-fukt-front-page-222572
