Friday, October 10, 2014
Watch A Team Of Actors Learn Game Of Thrones' Dothraki From Scratch
io9.com: Dothraki is a tricky language to speak — even the Khaleesi herself screws up her pronunciation. But you can speak it like a bloodrider! The Living Language school has just started offering Dothraki classes, and we have an exclusive video featuring the man who invented this thorny tongue, David Peterson.
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I think it's really cool that there are people out there who can create entire functional languages based on a few phrases from a work of fiction. I can't even imagine what it takes to come up with all of the words and grammar rules out of nowhere. It would definitely be fun to study languages and their formation; it's fascinating to see how we developed words out of necessity.
It's also pretty interesting that there is even a market for learning a language that essentially no one speaks, although I suppose it is true that Game of Thrones fandom has gotten pretty huge.
THIS IS SO COOL! I knew that Dorathrki had been made into a full language, but this is really amazing. I also did not realize that George R.R. Martin was not the one to come up with the full language. I have so much respect for Peterson who made a full language and said that he has done this plenty of time before. When he said that he based the language off of a fusion of Arabic and Spanish it totally clicked, ‘that’s exactly what it sounds like!’ I agree that those two languages are really beautiful and combining them in this way is really genius. Having a full language like this I can only imagine would make it easier for actors because now they have a solid basis for some of their lines, it is no longer just a type of gibberish. At the same time there was a definite right and wrong way to pronounce things and to be grammatically correct which presents its own set of problems.
Being a new to the Game of thrones fandom I had no idea that much time and effort went into creating the Dothrayki language. His process for creating the language I found very interesting because its not something that is done on an every day basis. To break down a sentence to its core and break apart the gramatical structure to understand the building blocks the author set forth so he could then continue on and create a whole plethora of words is incredible. I'm curious though to know how this factors into forming the script of the show. It was my understanding that the show closely follows the book, while I have heard from people who have actually read the books that the forth season of the show does go on it's own a bit. Does this mean that the writers of the show write the dialogue in English and have David Peterson translate or work closely with him to form the dialogue that not only makes sense to the scene and characters but puts emphasis on the beauty of the language's diction?
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