#trigadasleng

In this video, linguists Nick Farmer (creator of lang belta) and David J. Peterson (creator of Trigadasleng [The 100], Dothraki, & Valyrian [Game of Thrones]) in conversation about language, constructed langauges, television, and stuff.

At ~43:25, in response to a question regarding a surprising experience in the real world with their languages, Nick responds “When I go into a bar, and the bartender starts speaking to me in Belter, and I have this realization that there’s somebody who speaks my language way better than I do.”

Heh. To any extent that’s true, it’s probably bc I don’t have to sort through 30 languages rattling around in my noggin to get to the Belter. ;-)

At 1:06:50, I actually get to ask a couple of questions in Belter, and give a brief recruiting speech for the OPA. Yes, I start off by saying goodbye, and it’s really jankety “Beltlish”. But practice makes perfect.

Du ferí da Belte!

Yes, thank you for finding this! I remember seeing this a long time ago and it raised all sorts of questions about how this language “evolved” at all (and JR’s retcon seems more a response to those who questioned the logic of it: because this evolution is so unlikely over such a short period of time, if the language was already in place, an invented language from the beginning, he might have thought this would look clever. But it just ignores continuity (and there too many examples of this in the show already). This show has always been written by the seat of JR’s pants.