Dothraki conlanger in the news

[Jonathan Lighter]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/arts/television/in-game-of-thrones-a-language-to-make-the-world-feel-real.html?pagewanted=all

Peterson was on CNN explaining that because the Dothraki "is a horse-based
culture," the language "has forty-two words for _horse_."

Wow!  How do they think of this stuff?!

My Roget's lists far more than forty-two "words for _horse_" in English.
Weird.

JL

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