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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To many, one of the coolest things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Game of Thrones
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the inhabitants of the Dothraki sea
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have their own real language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Dothraki came hot on the heels
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the real language that the Na'vi speak in Avatar,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, surely, the Na'vi needed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the Klingons in Star Trek
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have had their own whole language
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since 1979.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let's not forget the Elvish languages
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially since that was the official grandfather
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Fantasy Conlangs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conlang is short for constructive language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're more than codes like Pig Latin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're not just collections
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of fabricated slang like the Nadsat lingo
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the teen hoodlums in A Clockwork Orange speak,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where droog from Russian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happens to mean friend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What makes Conlangs real languages
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't the number of words they have.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It helps, of course, to have a lot of words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dothraki has thousands of words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Na'vi started with 1500 words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fans on websites have steadily created more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can see the difference
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between vocabulary alone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what makes a real language
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a look at how Tolkien
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put together grand ol' Elvish,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Conlang with several thousands words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afterall, you could memorize 5,000 words of Russian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still be barely able to construct a sentence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A four-year-old would talk rings around you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's because you have to know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to put the words together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is, a real language has grammar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elvish does.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In English, to make a verb past,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you add an "-ed".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wash, washed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Elvish, wash is allu
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and washed is allune.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Real languages also change over time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's not such thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a language that is the same today
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it was a thousand years ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As people speak, they drift into new habits,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shed old ones,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make mistakes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get creative.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, one says,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Give us today our daily bread."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Old English, they said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Urne gedaeghwamlican hlaf syle us todaeg."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things change in Conlangs too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien charted out ancient
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and newer versions of Elvish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the first elves awoke at Cuivienen,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their new language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their word for people was kwendi,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the language of one of the groups
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that moved away, Teleri,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over time, kwendi became pendi,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the k turning into a p.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just like real languages,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conlangs like Elvish split off into many.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the Romans transplanted Latin around Europe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,French, Italian, and Spanish were born.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When groups move to different places,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over time their ways of speaking grow apart,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like everything else about them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus, Latin's word for hand was manus,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in French, it became main,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while in Spain it became mano.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien made sure Elvish did the same kind of thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While that original word kwendi became pendi
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the Teleri,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the Avari, who spread throughout Middle Earth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it became kindi
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the w dropped out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Elvish varieties that Tolkien flushed out the most
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are Quenya and Sindarin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their words are different
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same way French and Spanish are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quenya has suc for drink,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sindarin has sog.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you know, real languages are messy!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's because they change,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and change has a way of working against order,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like in a living room
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or on a bookshelf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Real languages are never perfectly logical.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why Tolkien made sure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Elvish had plenty of exceptions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of verbs are conjugated in ways
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you just have to know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take even the word know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the past, it's knew,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which isn't explained by any of the rules in English.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Elvish, know is ista,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but knew is sinte.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is, though,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Elvish is more of a sketch for a real language
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than a whole one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Tolkien, Elvish was a hobby
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than an attempt to create something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people could actually speak.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much of the Elvish that the characters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Lord of the Rings movies speak
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been made up since Tolkien
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by dedicated fans of Elvish
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on guesses as to what Tolkien
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have constructed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the best we can do for Elvish
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there are no actual elves around
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to speak it for us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the modern Conlangs go furter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dothraki, Na'vi and Klingon are developed enough
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could actually speak them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a translation of Hamlet into Klingon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although performing it would mean getting used to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pronouncing "k" with your uvula,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that weird, cartoony thing hanging
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the back of your throat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believe it or not,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you actually do that in plenty
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of languages around the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Eskimo ones.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pronouncing Elvish is much easier, though.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, let's take a lead for now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from this introduction of Conlangs in Elvish
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the other three Conglangs discussed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a heartfelt quad-Conlangual valedictory
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A na marie!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hajas!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Na'vi's "Kiyevame!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Qapla!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "Goodbye!"