Press Coverage of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language by Arika Okrent
In the Land of Invented Lanugages (website)
- Radio
- Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane (WHYY/NPR) (mp3)
- Doing Time with Ron Kuby, Air America
- Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, Think with Krys Boyd (KERA/NPR) (mp3)
- Dreaming of a Perfect Language, On Point with Tim Ashbrook (WBUR/NPR) (mp3)
- Building A Better Language by The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC/NPR) (mp3)
- Summer Reading Challenge Books on the Nightstand Podcast, Episode #31 (mp3 @ 14m-18m10s)
- Studio 360: Why Yes, I Do Speak Klingon (mp3)
- Text
- Klingon and other "crazy ideas" in book about invented tongues by John Timpane - The Philadelphia Inquirer, Arts & Entertainment, June 20, 2010.
- Questions Answered: Invented Languages with guest writers Arika Okrent and Paul Frommer - The New York Times, Schott's Vocab column.
- Man vs. Language: Language Wins! by Margaret Taylor, Carleton College: shout (November 2, 2009 blog posting)
- Do You Speak Klingon? by Stephen Brown, The Daily Beast
- The Q&A: Arika Okrent, Linguist, Neuroscientist, Klingon Expert by Robert Lane Greene, More Intelligent Life.com
- There's No Klingon Word for Hello by Arika Okrent, Slate.com
- Excuse me, do you speak Klingon? by Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
- The Bookshelf: In the Land of Invented Languages, Language Hat
- Books About Languages by Roy Blount Jr., New York Times Sunday Book Review
- 'In the Land of Invented Languages' by Daniel L. Everett, San Francisco Chronicle
- Trying to dismantle our tower of babble by Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
- Unspeakably hilarious - Ten interesting words from invented languages by Arika Okrent, U. Chicago Magazine
- 'In the Land of Invented Languages' by Arika Okrent by Roger K. Miller, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Arika Okrent: Speaking Klingon by M.J. Stephey, TIME.com
- Book review: Arika Okrent's 'In the Land of Invented Languages' by Tim Redman, Dallas Morning News
- Interesting read to be found 'In the Land of Invented Languages' by Barbara Wallraff, Kingston Whig Standard
- Science fiction by Fred Cleaver, Denver Post
- Book review: In The Land Of Invented Languages... by Suzette Haaden-Elgin
- Publisher's Weekly (starred, 5th from bottom)
- What to read this summer by Sam Anderson, New York Books
- Video
- Geeking Out, hosted by Gelf Magazine, July 2009: Part 1 of 2, Part 2 of 2.
- LCC talks mentioned in the book
- Supplemental info
- "900 languages in 900 years" - This is a drastic underestimate, depending on how one counts (as Okrent mentions in the preface to the list, in the book's appendix); there are well more than that in the last few decades alone. Cf. Wikipedia, Richard Kennaway, and LangMaker (all very incomplete listings). Okrent's list concentrates primarily on pre-Internet-era conlanging, particularly philosophical and auxiliary languages.
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