#BlackLivesMatter Conlanger, writer, and artist. Current projects: Dune, Halo, Motherland, House of the Dragon, The Witcher, Shadow & Bone, {REDACTED}×4.
May 19, 2019 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Tonight's the last episode of #GameOfThrones, and if you'll allow, I'd like to reflect. The whole things started for me ten years ago on September 9th—the first day of the Dothraki competition. But the real story starts before that. (Longish thread.) #conlang
Back when they were auditioning actors, Dan Weiss and David Benioff had some gibberish lines for the Dothraki, and had those auditioning kind of make stuff up, and they found the results unsatisfactory. They decided they needed a real language for the Dothraki to speak.
May 23, 2018 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
This is unbelievably awesome! It tells you a lot about what sounds an English speaker thinks are important, and how they interpret their spelling system.
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For example, note the spelling of “triangle”. Many people actually have a “ch” sound here, even if they fail to acknowledge it.
