Re: Conlanging in the news
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 17:57 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
> <<
> I've sometimes wondered how to get on that elite list of people who
> are considered by capable of creating a language for this or that
> alien race for film or TV. I, too, could use the money.
>
> It appears that one way to get on the elite list is to never have
> created a language before, or even attempted it. So, that counts
> a lot of us out. Sorry. :( Seriously, though: Wikeley, Okrand,
> the guys who created the Myst language, the ones who created
> the gibberish for the various Blizzard games--none of them
> conlangers.
>
Don't forget Victoria Fromkin (Blade I)... Of course, we don't know what
these people were doing at age 13 :-)))))
The idea of the "Conlangers' Guild" sounds promising. Perhaps somehow we
could get on google's list with something like "Need an invented language
for your project? Contact the C. G...." with all sort of keywords in the
head (invented/artificial/fictional/RPG etc. languages). That way we could
avoid having to lunch every day at the Paramount commissary, or be located
at a nearby university. Now that conlanging seems to be becoming so popular
(necessary?), we really MUST exert some control over the process.
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