{"id":790,"date":"2013-12-26T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T01:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-12-27T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T22:10:02","slug":"2013-the-year-in-conlanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"2013: The Year in Conlanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past year had some great conlanging activity. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Games of Thrones<\/em>, <a title=\"GoT Season3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0944947\/episodes?season=3\">Season 3<\/a>, premiered in March. With this season, we got a little less Dothraki but also go to hear <a title=\"High Valyrian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dothraki.com\/tag\/high-valyrian\/\">High Valyrian<\/a> thanks to David J. Peterson. Especially with the awe-inspiring episode <a title=\"And Now His Watch is Ended\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2178798\/\">And Now His Watch is Ended<\/a>! <em><a title=\"Dracarys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yUWR8wvqQw8\">Dracarys<\/a><\/em>!<\/li>\n<li>Also, thanks to David, we got conlangs in the new Syfy TV series <a title=\"Defiance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2189221\/\"><em>Defiance<\/em><\/a> which premiered in April. <a title=\"Castithan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.language.defiance-wiki.com\/wiki\/Learn_Castithan\">Castithan<\/a> and <a title=\"Irathient\" href=\"http:\/\/www.language.defiance-wiki.com\/wiki\/Learn_Irathient\">Irathient<\/a> got a following rather quickly!<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"IMDB: Man of Steel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0770828\/\">Man of Steel<\/a>, released in June, featured <a title=\"Kryptonian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christineschreyer.ca\/Kryptonian.html\">Kryptonian<\/a> created by <a title=\"Schreyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christineschreyer.ca\/About_Me.html\">Christine Schreyer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The opening of the <a href=\"http:\/\/conlang.org\/resources\/lcs-lending-library\/\">LCS Lending Library<\/a> in September (Edit: added 12\/27\/2013)<\/li>\n<li>In November, <em>Thor: The Dark World<\/em> was released which featured extensive dialogue from Malekith and Algrim\/Kurse in David&#8217;s Dark Elvish (or <a title=\"Dark Elvish\" href=\"http:\/\/dedalvs.tumblr.com\/post\/67483676828\/mr-peterson-you-are-awesome-i-just-saw-thor-2-for\">Shiv\u00c3\u00a4isith<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Also in November, Mark Rosenfelder (aka Zompist) published his follow-up to the <abbr title=\"Language Construction Kit\">LCK<\/abbr> and Advanced LCK: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/lexipedia.html\">The Conlanger&#8217;s Lexipedia<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>In 2013, Zompist also worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/zompist.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/12\/serpents-tongue\/\">the conlang for <em>Serpent&#8217;s Tongue<\/em><\/a>, Sehimu Thinara. His blog post includes a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomemagi.com\/language-of-st\/\">grammatical sketch<\/a> of the language.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"review\" href=\"\/?p=785\">The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/a> was released in December with quite a bit of dialogue in Elvish and Orkish.<\/li>\n<li>It was also announced that David would be doing the alien language for the CW TV series <a title=\"Star-Crossed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2657262\/\">Star-Crossed<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have I missed one? (Undoubtedly.) Feel free to add a comment to this post!<\/p>\n<p>Happy conlanging in 2014!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past year had some great conlanging activity. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the highlights: Games of Thrones, Season 3, premiered in March. With this season, we got a little less Dothraki but also go to hear High Valyrian thanks to David J. Peterson. Especially with the awe-inspiring episode And Now His Watch is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,38],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film","category-television","tag-year-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}