[Ads-l] "Dune" and engineered languages

[Nancy Friedman]

Manvir Singh for The New Yorker, February 28, 2024:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/dune-and-the-delicate-art-of-making-fictional-languages

>>Twenty years ago, viewers would have struggled to name franchises other
than “Star Trek” or “The Lord of the Rings” that bothered to invent new
languages. Today, with the budgets of the biggest films and series
rivalling the G.D.P.s of small island nations, constructed languages, or
conlangs, are becoming a norm, if not an implicit requirement. Breeze
through entertainment from the past decade or so, and you’ll find lingos
designed for Paleolithic peoples (“Alpha”), spell-casting witches (“Penny
Dreadful”), post-apocalyptic survivors (“Into the Badlands”), Superman’s
home planet of Krypton (“Man of Steel
<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/superman-and-the-superego>”),
a cross-species alien alliance (“Halo”), time-travelling preteens (“Paper
Girls”), the Munja’kin tribe of Oz (“Emerald City”), and Santa Claus and
his elves (“The Christmas Chronicles” and its sequel).<<


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