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>>> In this episode, Dwane is teaching how to speak Ditrake.
>>> Louder, you're shouting in the back of a horse.
>>> UCSD grad, David Peterson was delighted when he saw that, he's a fan of "the office"
he's a lingual specialist and created the language for the "game of thrones" he talked
to students at UCSD about building a language. >>> If you're going to try to create something
that's authentic it's one of the most intellectually rigorous exercises I've ever undertaken and
that's the appeal. >>> Eater W Peterson started with the source
material with the TV show, George R.R. Martin's epic novel, "a song of ice and fire."
>>> I remember the first word I coined was the word for horse.
>>> The expert rider and horses are central to their culture.
Peterson created a phonetic and structural form to the language.
>>> I kept in mind what people would think would sound cool, menacing, and that means something different
for an English speaker than a native speaker of Japanese are or Chinese so I was working
with the expectations of English speakers in mind.
>>> Peterson met George R.R. Martin at a book signing in San Diego.
That's what he found out he got one crucial part of the language wrong.
>>> I'm like, hi I did the language and he said oh, so you're the one that did deathraki
and I was like, wow, I was way off, I would never have guessed that had.
>>> Space, a final frontier. >>> Creating fictional language for TV and
movies became popular after "star trek" grand goodall teaches language at UCSD and he says
they set a high bar for Hollywood. >>> That seems to be the new normal if you're
going to have a science fiction series or fantasy series you have to have� if you're
going to have an alien tribe or species, they have to have their own language and it can't
just be jiberish that the actors makeup on the spot it has to be created with some care.
>>> Goodall speaks Esperanto which dates back to the 70s, it was hoped it would be adopted
all over the world to achieve universal brother shooed.
He started speak it go when he was 13. Today there are more than 2 million speakers
and it's one of the most successful and enduring constructed language, but he also dabbles
in clingon and the language from the movie "Avitar" and Peterson has carved out a niche
for himself and he's created a new language for the latest season of "great many of thrones"
and the SciFI network hired him to work for them.
>>> If you're going to be creating a language it pretty much� if you're going to put your
all into it, it can take up your entire life. >>> Angela Carone, KPBS news.