{"id":3088,"date":"2011-12-14T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T20:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2011-12-14T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T20:07:15","slug":"speaking_in_ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3088","title":{"rendered":"Speaking In Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that nerds are taking over the world is already well-documented. But in case you need more evidence, the <i>Times <\/i>reports that television and movie studios are willing to pay a pretty penny to linguistics geeks who can develop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/12\/arts\/television\/in-game-of-thrones-a-language-to-make-the-world-feel-real.html?_r=1&amp;ref=television\">fully-realized fictional languages like Dothraki for <i>Game of Thrones<\/i><\/a>. Of course, we true geeks know that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Klingon_Dictionary\"><i>The Klingon Dictionary<\/i><\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>More and more, I&#8217;m second-guessing my decision to go to law school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3088' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-NO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}