[QuadList] OT: QuadList member Tim Stoffel on CNN's Next List, Sunday, 1pE/11aP

[Tim Stoffel]

Ultxa seri oe hu ngenga mì <<Las Vegas>> a lu prrte oeru (It would be a
pleasure to meet with you in Las Vegas)(Na'vi)

M'athchomaroon, zhey lakakaan! Hash yer dothrae chek asshekh? (Greetings
to the warrior. How are you (lit. do you ride well) today?)(Dothraki)

Na'vi is my primary focus, and I have been working on that language for
a little over two years now. I can write and speak it tolerably, but
there is still much to learn.

I got interested in Dothraki as the Na'vi community has been supporting
the web resources needed to promote the language, and because one of the
first hundred or so words released was 'Hrakkar' for 'white lion' (which
actually goes back to the original books, and is my Dothraki name.) I
was very fortunate last summer to have spent several days with David
Peterson when he was in Reno for the Worldcon Science Fiction
convention. We became friends, and I am one of perhaps 5 or 6 people he
coaches personally.

Na'vi and Dothraki are good languages to learn together, as they are
almost exact opposites of each other. Na'vi is a beautiful, flowing
language that still has exotic sounds in it, like ejectives. It has a
relatively straightforward grammar, 'infixes' in the verbs, and
comparatively free word order. Dothraki is more of a warrior's tongue,
and is a lot more consonantal than Na'vi (but not as guttural as
Klingon). Its sounds are simpler to master than Na'vi, but it has a
fairly challenging grammar, and tables of prefixes/suffixes you simply
have to memorize to get right.

kìyevame (good bye, see you again)(Na'vi)
Fonas chek! (goodbye, lit. 'hunt well!')(Dothraki)

Tim Stoffel
A.K.A. 'Eylan Ayfalulukanä on Pandora, Hrakkar on the Dothraki Sea

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On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 11:58 -0700, Ted Langdell wrote:
> Engineering and languages have a things in common, so it's not too
> surprising to find QuadList member Tim Stoffel has been learning and
> helping expand several languages.
> 
> 
> Tim's been learning how to speak and write the Na'vi language from the
> movie Avatar, and has recently taken up  Dothraki tongue from HBO's
> Game of Thrones.
> 
> 
> The development and use of these languages is explored tomorrow
> (Sunday, April 8, 2012) at 1pm Eastern/11am Pacific on CNNs What's
> Next with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
> http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/category/the-next-list/
> 
> 
> Tim is one of the people CNN asked to record themselves saying
> something in one of the tongues.  His contribution was recorded
> several weeks ago.
> 
> 
> So, don't be surprised if he tells you his food at our Tuesday lunch
> is ftxìlor or that after walking the floor ot the Las Vegas Convention
> Center, he's haqe.  
> 
> 
> He'll tell you that learning the new languages is sometimes hard work,
> but tì'o'.
> 
> 
> Ted
> 
> 
> Ted Langdell
> Secretary
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