This weekend we look at creativity with words. Have you ever thought about inventing your own language? Sometimes children do it, but what about adults?
Here’s a look at three grown-ups who have jobs constructing languages for movies, and how they approach their work. From thinking about who the characters are and where they are from, through grammatical systems and sounds, these folks help elves and Klingons communicate.
It’s not gibberish. These “conlangers” are geekily precise about what they create, and are the final arbitrators of whether new words can enter their made-up universes, whether they are created on-set by actors or by devout fans.
