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Interview with Sheri Wells-Jensen

Language Creation Society

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How to Create a Language for a Video Game

Linguistics professor: "We only have the time to do really clever syntax for the most part" Linguists share frustration in language creation community, he says. One of the particularly infuriating stories is this language Tofan that was created for a video game whose name I cannot remember. 'I wonder how did you miss the thousands, thousands of people on the internet that do this for fun? Oh, last. Well, I hope we did a good job'

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