Dec 142011
The fact that nerds are taking over the world is already well-documented. But in case you need more evidence, the Times reports that television and movie studios are willing to pay a pretty penny to linguistics geeks who can develop fully-realized fictional languages like Dothraki for Game of Thrones. Of course, we true geeks know that The Klingon Dictionary blazed the trail for this sort of thing, but Hollywood now seems to be taking the whole world-building process rather seriously, creating lucrative opportunities for talented geeks who wrote their doctoral dissertations in Esperanto.
More and more, I’m second-guessing my decision to go to law school.
It’s strange that the most successful planned language – Esperanto – barely gets a brief mention here.
It’s a shame that all the time and energy invested in these fictional languages is not dedicated to Esperanto which has demonstrated its usefulness over many years.
Esperanto is celebrating its 125th anniversary next year. I’m sure we’ll hear more about that shortly.