December 2011
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Dec 12th
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In ‘Game of Thrones,’ a Language to Make the World... →
People have made a career out of this? “There’s been a sea change in Hollywood. They realize there’s a fan base out there that wants constructed languages,” said Matt Pearson, a linguistics professor at Reed College in Portland, Ore. He created Thhtmaa (pronounced tukhh-t’-mah), the language of termite-like aliens in the short-lived NBC series “Dark Skies.” “Game of Thrones,” based on the...
Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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Book Review - 'Asterios Polyp,' Written and... →
Today I read this in a bookshop, curled up in an armchair. Feeling guilty, might have to stump up some cash and actually pay for the thing: Enter “Asterios Polyp”: a big, proud, ambitious chunk of a graphic novel, with modernism on its mind and a perfectly geometrical chip on its shoulder. The tension between formalist rigor and emotional subtlety is not just the theme (and method) of the...
Dec 9th
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