{"id":171,"date":"2009-12-12T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-12-12T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:41:54","slug":"the-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"The Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/dec\/11\/uk-cinemas-enjoy-3d-boomtime\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2009\/12\/11\/1260522976736\/Avatar-001.jpg\" title=\"Human and Navi\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>The big buzz in the conlang community right now is about James Cameron&#8217;s film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\">Avatar<\/a> due to be released on December 18. Of course, the reason for the buzz is the language of the Na&#8217;vi created by University of Southern California professor Paul Frommer. The language has only been glimpsed briefly from articles and interviews, but the known corpus is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surrealaward.com\/avatar\/plotv.shtml\">growing<\/a>. Here is a collection of articles and websites to whet your appetite. Whether you plan to see the movie or not, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\">Avatar<\/a> has definitely brought artlangs front and center again. Personally, I get a kick out of the authors of some of these articles falling all over themselves in fascination that someone can create an &#8220;entirely alien language&#8221;. \ud83d\ude09 What a shock!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbandestiny.com\/?p=616\">What can we say from a wordlist?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8408245.stm\">The language of Avatar revealed <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/magazine\/06FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=1\">Skxawng! You don&#8217;t matter!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2009\/11\/usc-professor-creates-alien-language-for-avatar.html\">USC professor creates an entire alien language for &#8216;Avatar&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/oscars\/2009\/12\/brushing-up-on-navi-the-language-of-avatar.html\">Brushing up on Na&#8217;vi, the Language of <em>Avatar<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailytrojan.com\/2009\/12\/02\/usc-professor-gives-avatar-aliens-a-voice\/\">USC professor gives Avatar aliens a voice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big buzz in the conlang community right now is about James Cameron&#8217;s film Avatar due to be released on December 18. Of course, the reason for the buzz is the language of the Na&#8217;vi created by University of Southern California professor Paul Frommer. The language has only been glimpsed briefly from articles and interviews, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[46,162,45],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-avatar","tag-film","tag-navi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}