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Conlangery #136: Nymeran with Colm Doyle

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The Importance of the Language

Dothraki is not even written and he hasn't devised scripts for any of the languages. think that's a big difference between like what you're doing and some of the other like we've had David Peterson on and there it's a lot more important what the language sounds like. I'm very happy with what the artists have done and kind of how it's been kind of used in the comics.

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Speaker 2
think that's a big difference between like what you're doing and some of the other like we've had David Peterson on and there it's a lot more important what the language sounds like like Dothraki is not even written and he hasn't devised scripts for any of the languages he for for no he has this he didn't has a divide scripts for any of the Game of Thrones ones he did do scripts for other ones and there you know the visual of the scripts was an important part but there's the sound of it um it might be what you're doing is maybe like somewhat akin to what uh Christine Shrier did for Man of Steel where she did the Kryptonian language and it was just writing everywhere on set right there nobody said any of it
Speaker 1
yeah for sure I think how it's how it's how it looks on the page or how it's produced I'm not sure I don't know like too much about that language or how much there's a language behind it
Speaker 2
it's a full conlang okay
Speaker 1
that's cool let's go
Speaker 2
um she she developed a script for it and the and the the Kryptonians being you know advanced they have writing everywhere so um that but um the the point I was making is like it's interesting like in the comic the written language and how that written language looks was very important for you and for your um uh for for the artists so it's like there are different priorities for different kinds of projects that
Speaker 1
that's it um I mean um I think I took a lot of like inspiration I mean not in terms of actually the um the way that the language looks or or anything like that but like from the from you know the movie Senpai um was Brittany Watkins yeah uh who did who that movie um I mean he had a fantastic article on Fiat lingua about like how the kind of the aesthetic visual aesthetic of the language is used and I have the you know the video with the actual very nerdy like sort of linguistic um appendages and and sort of additional materials about about the the language and the visual thing so I mean definitely the admire has sort of like um attention to detail and how the language actually looks and uh you know it's very you can see that language everywhere in that uh in the movie um and so in this sort of way and I think that was that was very much like the the writers and creators decision to sort of like you know as I said at the start like that they're they're sort of like paying for for this service and and further to be an oobie a shame I guess then not to actually use it wherever they could um and I think when I was brought on the project initially I was sort of like a bit hesitant because I mean I never actually created a script before and I didn't know anything about like Photoshop or anything out of those programs and actually kind of like creating it both like you know on the page uh in sort of like the mechanics of the script and then how it looks and then actually you know digitizing it and using it in the comic I'm definitely kind of quite a an interesting task and an interesting challenge and it's nice the way it kind of let's come together and it looks I guess quite quite nice in the actual um in the comics I'm very happy with what the artists have done and kind of how it's been kind of used and I think you know as I said I guess at the start that sort of the the reception that the comic has gotten um has been has been quite good and I mean a lot of people have kind of mentioned online in certain places that they they like how you know the script is being used and the language is front and center so we'll see how um how how that develops and how that goes and and what kind of where where sort of the the language gets taken as as the story develops because currently we're sort of very um very much in one place in the story and uh going to see in future issues where um where where the characters go uh who they meet and then how the language gets used further down the road so I mean I don't know much about about that so even I myself are kind of interested and curious about what's going to
Speaker 2
happen.

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