Anonymous asked:
I’m going to miss you and your cat reblogs.
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M’athchomaroon! If you came looking for David J. Peterson’s Tumblr, you found it! Sadly, it is no longer being maintained. If you’d like to find out what I’m up to now, check one of these places:
- Website: ArtofLanguageInvention.com
- Twitter: @Dedalvs
- Old Website: dedalvs.com
- YouTube: DavidPetersonAoLI
- AO3: Dedalvs
Yes, you read right: I’ve started an AO3. Does that mean I’m writing fanfiction? No, I’m afraid not. Instead, for those who followed this Tumblr specifically for my posts on dialogue on the various shows I’ve worked on (e.g. after the episode airs I post all the dialogue with translations), you can now go there. I’ll continue those posts there, and tag the relevant fandoms in the tags. If I ever want to write something else language-y, I’ll probably do so there as well, and then I’ll tweet it out. I can’t imagine that I’ll be as active there as I was here, but it’s nice to know there’s a place I can go to put out something longer than a tweet.
As for Tumblr, it’s been amazing. From becoming Tumblr famous overnight due to reblogging a post about life hacks (yes, that literally happened), to discoursing on spoons, to now, it’s been an amazing half a decade (maybe more?). I’m still easy to find on the internet. If I come to your home town, let me know and we can say hey.
For now, though, a fond farewell from me and little Roman. Ai gonplei ste odon.
And I’m going to miss this place too. :( Here’s a special message from Keli.
Anonymous asked:
How do you choose where suppletion happens? I know it's most likely to occur in common words, but beyond that, do you just choose words at random to get suppletion, or are there factors that make a certain word a more likely candidate than others?
It’s common words and usually a very small subset (like with verbs, be or go). It’s words where the preterite is uncommon because of the very nature of the verb—at least when talking about verbs. For nouns, it’s where there’s a singular and plural that are equally common, I guess—or one where a noun in the singular is commonly used in the plural for some other noun. Man, this is starting to wear on me. My head isn’t with me anymore. I think I’ve got to stop. :(
Anonymous asked:
I want to create an a posteriori creole language spoken by a group of humans living in an already-established off-world colony. What would be the first questions that I'd need to ask myself in order to realistically evolve the language forward? If a creole is descended from two different parent languages, does the descendant creole inherent features like vocab from one, and syntax from the other? Would you be willing to do an AoLI episode dedicated to creole conlangs? Many thanks in advance!
Figure out what two languages they’re using, and figure out why they don’t just use each other’s languages. That’s the first step. I’d expect them to become bilingual or just switch from one to the other. For a creole to emerge, you need a group that’s not given the tools to learn a new language who is required to use that language.
Anonymous asked:
Just a funny thing: medo (body in trigedasleng) is also the word we use for "fear" in portuguese lol.
Probably pronounced a little differently. :)
Anonymous asked:
Ai bilaik woda op, floudon daun raun hir translates to my hands are full, but what does it translate literally too? Couldnt quite figure it out or understand it
I’m in a state like the water’s up to my shoulders but I’ve got no boat. Something like that.
Anonymous asked:
Regarding the post on assumed v. Actual gender on pronouns, would it perhaps be more lucrative to view this as essentially the Tu~vous distinction on third person gendered pronouns? Though I can't particularly think of an instance where it would be "useful" to have a formal 'he' vs informal 'he,' one imagines it would not be difficult to implement naturalistically. Perhaps it would simply be realized similar to honor marking in Japanese. Just some thoughts for the original post.
We have something like this with phrases like “his/her majesty”. That’s where I see honorific third person pronouns (or pronominal phrases) mostly.
Anonymous asked:
what are the best books on languages you can recommend? constructed or not
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Everyone should read this book. It’s short, you need no background in language or linguistics to understand or appreciate it, and it will change your world.
Anonymous asked:
I was wondering how many people are working in the media industry inventing conlangs? Every time I see a film or tv show with a conlang, you’re the one who created it. I’m starting to wonder... Are you the only one?
Probably like ten at most.
Anonymous asked:
Why do a lot of linguists find Dothraki fascinating?
This was an old joke, but yeah, none of them do. We’re so far off from that.
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