David J. Peterson Lecture: The Art of Language Invention, Dothraki, and More
This lecture was recorded on September 29, 2015, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts.
David J. Peterson began creating languages in 2000. He cofounded the Language Creation Society in 2007, and has created languages for HBO’s Game of Thrones, Syfy’s Defiance and Dominion, the CW’s Star-Crossed, and Thor: The Dark World.
He is the author of Living Language Dothraki (2014), and his newest publication, releasing the same night as the lecture, is The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building (Penguin Random House).
Peterson earned his MA in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego.
Peterson will sign copies of his books following the lecture.
About the 2015-16 Graduate Studies Lecture Series
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The 2015-16 Graduate Studies Lecture Series explores the many ways in which we undertake daily acts of both literal and implied translation, whether from ideas into actions or ideas into artworks, designs, films, or exhibitions; plans into buildings; or thought into the written and illustrated word.
In addition to exploring more general modes of translation, this series offers opportunities to consider specifically the challenges and opportunities of translating from one language, medium, or context to another.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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That's amazing... it's sad such work does not get more attention...the true masters of the craft are those able to create an evolution of the language through time.
That was a great talk!
_My Man Godfrey_ isn't the only film to be nominated in all four acting categories and loose them. _American Hustle_ also shares that distinction. But anyway, great talk!
6:10 It's funny an other conlang conference censored this part due to copyright issues, but here they show the scene without any problems
That is like translating Polish word ,,siny'' to English. We end up with the word ,,blue'', but Polish has many different words for ,,blue''. The skin could be ,,siny'' (blue), the sky is ,,błękitny''(blue), the paint is ,,niebieski'' (blue) and the water is ,,granatowy'' (blue). These words are not synonyms, they apply to specific categories.
@edi9892
6 жыл бұрын
Kacper Włoch I noticed that many men don't distinguish between violet, purple and magenta, whereas women rarely misuse them as if they were interchangeable.
@xGOKOPx
5 жыл бұрын
Well I guess you could describe "siny" as "unhealthily gray blue" or something along these lines
He always mentions his cats at these talks.
@markusklyver6277
3 жыл бұрын
I like cats
Oh the possibilities... so Zaldrizes (Lizards) are Dragons! WOW
I wish my English could be better then I can understand the man better……really sad……
How can you make the grammar without words to use in it?
@pogeman2345
5 жыл бұрын
I know this comment is old, but as a conlanger, I gotta reply to this for the people who read the comments. You actually can synthesis grammar and syntax without the created vocab yet by using place-holders like writing 'SVO' to determine sentence order or putting in 'noun-adjective' to say that nouns go before adjectives.
@MatthewMcVeagh
3 жыл бұрын
Grammar is mostly structure and interrelationships, along with a few other things like noun or verb options (tenses, genders). You can create that structure as a theoretical framework without having any word-forms to fill it out or exemplify it.
@thekatazsiuniverse4868
3 жыл бұрын
@@pogeman2345 I know you can do that, I just find it a lot easier to have the basic grammar and then lexicon, then do grammar completely
@markusklyver6277
3 жыл бұрын
Why would you need words for grammar? Grammar are just rules, such as word order, how to conjugate stuff and how you modify meanings.
Sandals are shoes to me.
@MisterSketch4
6 жыл бұрын
I think of sandals as being a specific type of shoe
@frechjo
5 жыл бұрын
I think of shoe as a type of footwear, and sandals as a different one (and boots yet another one, as well as socks, and many others). But I'm not a native English speaker. I also don't think as tennis shoes as shoes (nor t-shirts as shirts). And going the other way around, for me thumbs and toes are just fingers.
Bollox.😂
@centoe5537
4 жыл бұрын
Plerp Plerp No