Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Game of Thrones’ Klingon-like master
Star Trek still wins this one, as people will dress as Klingons to speak their native language. But, still mighty impressive that Game of Thrones have went that way as well. (Note: link has MAJOR spoilers for the last episode. If you are not caught up, stay away. I thought it was one of the best episodes in the whole series, that even someone watching it for the first time would be enthralled.)
But Thrones producers decided we needed to hear Drogo and his people speaking more extensively in their native language and searched for someone to flesh out a whole language, just as Marc Okrand did with Klingon and Paul Frommer did with Avatar’s Na’vi. Peterson, who has a masters in linguistics from the University of California–San Diego and founded the Language Creation Society, spent twelve to fourteen hours a day, every day, for two months working on the proposal that landed him the Thrones job. When he was finished, he had more than 300 pages of vocabulary and notes detailing how the Dothraki language would sound and function.
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