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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: He works on productions of very uneven quality, but he always makes what he creates for them as elaborate as he can.
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* AnachronismStew: Kezhwa is a creole spoken by [[TimeTravel time travelers]] whose vocabulary is borrowed from a variety of languages from different time periods.
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* AnachronismStew: Kezhwa is a creole spoken by [[TimeTravel time travelers]] whose vocabulary is borrowed from a variety of languages from different time periods.
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** Several of his creations, such as the descendants of High Valyrian, are in-universe examples.
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** Several of his creations, such as the descendants of High Valyrian, are in-universe examples. Some like Azrán (a descendant of Mexican Spanish) descended from real-world languages, averting EternalEnglish.
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* AnachronismStew: Kezhwa is a creole spoken by [[TimeTravel time travelers]] whose vocabulary is borrowed from a variety of languages from different time periods.
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* TranslationConvention: The reason why Ravkan is rarely heard and mainly appears in writing and Kerch only appears in writing: the main characters of ''Shadow and Bone'' speak these languages, so they're usually translated into English, unlike Fjerdan, Zemeni and Shu.
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* TranslationConvention: The reason why Ravkan is rarely heard and mainly appears in writing and Kerch only appears in writing: writing (and isn't actually a conlang): the main characters of ''Shadow and Bone'' speak these languages, so they're usually translated into English, unlike Fjerdan, Zemeni and Shu.
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** He was contacted by the makers of ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'' but they chose another conlanger because they couldn't afford him.
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** Similarly, he worked on the pilot of ''Bloodmoon'', one of the planned prequels of ''Game of Thrones'', but the project was canceled because HBO was dissatisfied with the pilot and decided to greenlight ''House of the Dragon'' instead.
** He was contacted by the makers of ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'' and ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'' but they choseanother conlanger other conlangers, presumably because they couldn't afford him.him.
** He turned down working on various projects for various reasons, they sometimes hired other conlangers, for instance Trent Pehrson ended up working on ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' because Peterson wasn't interested and recommended him instead.
** He was contacted by the makers of ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'' and ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'' but they chose
** He turned down working on various projects for various reasons, they sometimes hired other conlangers, for instance Trent Pehrson ended up working on ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' because Peterson wasn't interested and recommended him instead.
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* ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'' (2021 - ): Chakobsa, Sardaukar, and House Atreides' sign language
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* ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'' (2021 - ): ''[[Film/Dune2021 Dune: Part One]]'' (2021) and ''Film/DunePartTwo'' (2024): Chakobsa, Sardaukar, Harkonnen, and House Atreides' sign language
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** Conversely, Indojisnen is too complex for non-Indogenes to speak because of the Indogenes superhuman intelligences.
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** Conversely, Indojisnen is too complex for non-Indogenes to speak because of the Indogenes Indogenes' superhuman intelligences.
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* CommonTongue: Castithan was an in-universe example before the Votans left their planets, Castithans were the most powerful race and their language was used in the entire Votanis system as the international language of trade.
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* CommonTongue: Castithan was an in-universe example before the Votans left their planets, the Castithans were the most powerful race and their language was used in the entire Votanis system as the international language of trade.
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** Conversely, Indojisnen is too complex for non-Indogenes to speak because of their superhuman intelligences.
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** Conversely, Indojisnen is too complex for non-Indogenes to speak because of their the Indogenes superhuman intelligences.
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* CommonTongue: Castithan was an in-universe example before the Votans left their planets, Castithans were the most powerful race and their language was used in the entire Votanis system as the international language of trade.
* CreatorsFavorite: He was amazed by Creator/JacobAnderson's performance in Astapori Valyrian and still considers it the best performance ever achieved in one of his creations.
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* LanguageEqualsThought: Mag Nuk, the language of giants in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', is a [[YouNoTakeCandle very simplified]] version of the Old Tongue in which every word has become monosyllabic because of the giants' limited intelligence.
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* LanguageEqualsThought: LanguageEqualsThought:
** Mag Nuk, the language of giants in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', is a [[YouNoTakeCandle very simplified]] version of the Old Tongue in which every word has become monosyllabic because of the giants' limitedintelligence.intelligence.
** Conversely, Indojisnen is too complex for non-Indogenes to speak because of their superhuman intelligences.
** Mag Nuk, the language of giants in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', is a [[YouNoTakeCandle very simplified]] version of the Old Tongue in which every word has become monosyllabic because of the giants' limited
** Conversely, Indojisnen is too complex for non-Indogenes to speak because of their superhuman intelligences.
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* ShownTheirWork: His creations are among the most realistic languages ever invented thanks to the elaborate history he invents for most of them.
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* ShownTheirWork: His creations are among the most realistic languages ever invented thanks to the elaborate history he invents creates for most of them.
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** Nelvayu is the language of [[EldritchAbomination Dormammu]].
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** Nelvayu is the language of [[EldritchAbomination Dormammu]].the EldritchAbomination Dormammu.
* SingleLanguagePlanet: His alien languages are generally the only languages spoken on their planets, because the writers said so. Averted in his personal creations' lore, which involves multilingual worlds.
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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Averted in Kezhwa, the language of time travelers in ''[[Series/PaperGirls2022 Paper Girls]]'': it has a ''nonpresent'', which the speakers use to refer to both past and future since the difference doesn't matter to them.
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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Averted in Kezhwa, the language of time travelers in ''[[Series/PaperGirls2022 Paper Girls]]'': ''Paper Girls'': it has a ''nonpresent'', which the speakers use to refer to both past and future since the difference doesn't matter to them.them.
* TranslationConvention: The reason why Ravkan is rarely heard and mainly appears in writing and Kerch only appears in writing: the main characters of ''Shadow and Bone'' speak these languages, so they're usually translated into English, unlike Fjerdan, Zemeni and Shu.
* TranslationConvention: The reason why Ravkan is rarely heard and mainly appears in writing and Kerch only appears in writing: the main characters of ''Shadow and Bone'' speak these languages, so they're usually translated into English, unlike Fjerdan, Zemeni and Shu.
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** The Orcish language he created for ''Film/{{Warcraft|2016}}'' was originally TruerToTheText, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the producers]] had him do it all over again because they felt it didn't sound "orcish" enough.
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** The Orcish language he created for ''Film/{{Warcraft|2016}}'' ''Warcraft'' was originally TruerToTheText, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the producers]] had him do it all over again because they felt it didn't sound "orcish" enough.
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** Pixar consulted him for ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' but didn't end up hiring a conlanger. He's nevertheless credited in the special thanks section.
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** He admits he regards many of his early (as in pre-Dothraki) creations as terrible, especially his first conlang [[https://dedalvs.com/megdevi.html Megdevi]]. However, he's willing to share them anyway to show beginners how ''not'' to create a conlang.
** He doesn't like talking about his involvement in ''Penny Dreadful'' and ''Lovecraft Country'' because working on those shows was a bad experience for him.
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* OldShame: He admits he regards many of his early (as in pre-Dothraki) creations as terrible, especially his first conlang [[https://dedalvs.com/megdevi.html Megdevi]]. However, he's willing to share them anyway to show beginners how ''not'' to create a conlang.
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* TheWikiRule: He made [[https://wiki.languageinvention.com/index.php?title=Main_Page his own]] to document his creations.
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* Wingdinglish:
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* Wingdinglish:{{Wingdinglish}}:
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* LanguageEqualsThought:
** Mag Nuk, the language of giants in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', is a [[YouNoTakeCandle very simplified]] version of the Old Tongue in which every word has become monosyllabic because of the giants' limited intelligence.
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**LanguageEqualsThought: Mag Nuk, the language of giants in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', is a [[YouNoTakeCandle very simplified]] version of the Old Tongue in which every word has become monosyllabic because of the giants' limited intelligence.
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* WorldBuilding: To invent believable words and expressions, he spends quite a lot of time thinking about the speakers' culture and how they would say something. In some cases, his ideas even influenced the writers he worked with.
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* WorldBuilding: {{WorldBuilding}}: To invent believable words and expressions, he spends quite a lot of time thinking about the speakers' culture and how they would say something. In some cases, his ideas even influenced the writers he worked with.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: He regards High Valyrian and Irathient as his best conlangs.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: He regards High Valyrian and Valyrian, Irathient and Munja'kin as his best conlangs.
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* ForgetfulJones: He admits he often forgets details about his own creations because he forgets to take notes.
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* ForgetfulJones: He admits he often forgets details about his own creations because he forgets to take notes.notes:
--> I’m actually not 100% clear why there’s variability... I can’t remember what I did. Based on the other table, I think the form ''vüb''- is used for reflexives, but the form ''vün''- is used for two different third person animate arguments. It could be the other way around... Man. I don’t remember what source I used for reflexives. I’m sure I wrote it down somewhere, but I can’t find it. [...] Notice how I say "for its reflexive form, it causes no mutation" ''but I don’t say which one is the reflexive form!'' I have to think it’s the ''b'' form, but I can’t say for certain. [...] I’m going to guess it’s that ''b''/''o'' form that’s reflexive, but that’s just an educated guess, since like an idiot I didn’t write this down. Ugh.
--> I’m actually not 100% clear why there’s variability... I can’t remember what I did. Based on the other table, I think the form ''vüb''- is used for reflexives, but the form ''vün''- is used for two different third person animate arguments. It could be the other way around... Man. I don’t remember what source I used for reflexives. I’m sure I wrote it down somewhere, but I can’t find it. [...] Notice how I say "for its reflexive form, it causes no mutation" ''but I don’t say which one is the reflexive form!'' I have to think it’s the ''b'' form, but I can’t say for certain. [...] I’m going to guess it’s that ''b''/''o'' form that’s reflexive, but that’s just an educated guess, since like an idiot I didn’t write this down. Ugh.
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* OldShame: He admits he regards many of his early (as in pre-Dothraki) creations as terrible, especially his first conlang [[https://dedalvs.com/megdevi.html Megdevi]].
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* OldShame: He admits he regards many of his early (as in pre-Dothraki) creations as terrible, especially his first conlang [[https://dedalvs.com/megdevi.html Megdevi]]. However, he's willing to share them anyway to show beginners how ''not'' to create a conlang.
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* UncreditedRole: Sometimes, either because his contributions were small or, unfortunately, because the clients forgot.
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* ForgetfulJones: He admits he often forgets details about his own creations because he forgets to take notes.
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** Generally totally averted, but Kerch is an intentional example, as he was hired to only create its script without a conlang, everything written in Kerch is just English in his font.
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** Generally totally averted, but Kerch is an intentional example, example as he was hired to only create its script without a conlang, everything written in Kerch is just English in his font.font.
** Examples he had no control over are unfortunately found in several shows and movies he worked on, as their art departments were too lazy to use his scripts properly and just wrote English with them.
** Examples he had no control over are unfortunately found in several shows and movies he worked on, as their art departments were too lazy to use his scripts properly and just wrote English with them.
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* ''Series/{{The Witcher|2019}}'' (2019 - ): Elder Speech
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* ''Series/{{The Witcher|2019}}'' (2019 - ): ) and Series/TheWitcherBloodOrigin (2022): Elder Speech
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* ''Series/ShadowAndBone'' (2021 - 2023): Ravkan (solo), Fjerdan (together with Christian Thalmann), Zemeni and Shu (together with Jessie Peterson)
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* ''Series/ShadowAndBone'' (2021 - 2023): Ravkan (solo), Kerch script, Fjerdan (together with Christian Thalmann), Zemeni and Shu (together with Jessie Peterson)
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* ''Film/TheChristmasChronicles'' (2018): Yulish
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* ''Film/TheChristmasChronicles'' (2018): (2018) and ''The Christmas Chronicles 2'' (2020): Yulish
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!! Video Games he worked on:
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!! Video Games games he worked on:
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* ''The Zaanics Deceit'' (2014): Væyne Zaanics
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* ''The Zaanics Deceit'' (2014): (2014) and ''The Zaanics Pursuit'' (2017): Væyne Zaanics
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* The [=YouTube=] series ''The Art of Language Invention'' (2015-2018)
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* The livestream series ''[=LangTime=] Studio'' and the podcast ''[=LangTime=] Chat'' (2020-) (together with Jessie Peterson)
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* The [=YouTube=] series ''The Art of Language Invention'' (2015-2018)
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* The livestream series ''[=LangTime=] Studio'' and the podcast ''[=LangTime=] Chat''(2020-) (2020 -) (together with Jessie Peterson)
* The livestream series ''[=LangTime=] Studio'' and the podcast ''[=LangTime=] Chat''
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** Generally totally averted, but Kerch is an intentional example, as he was hired to only create its script without a conlang, everything written in Kerch is just English in his font.
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* ''The Art of Language Invention'' (2015-2018), a [=YouTube=] series
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* ''[=LangTime=] Studio'' and ''[=LangTime=] Chat'' (2020-), a livestream series and a podcast (together with Jessie Peterson)
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* The [=YouTube=] series ''The Art of Language Invention'' (2015-2018), a [=YouTube=] series
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* The livestream series ''[=LangTime=] Studio'' and the podcast ''[=LangTime=] Chat''(2020-), a livestream series and a podcast (2020-) (together with Jessie Peterson)
* The livestream series ''[=LangTime=] Studio'' and the podcast ''[=LangTime=] Chat''
