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Afr0	Created : 13 January 2010 Edited : 13 January 2010 Learn Na'vi Saw Avatar and liked the language? https://www.learnnavi.org


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Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 13:00
Jayenkai	When the Trek folk first created Klingon, they did it to ensure the movies had a kind of structure to them, rather than random k'ach's and H'ij's and things. It wasn't meant as a language, more as a reference point for the writers. The cynic in me can't help but see this as nothing more than advanced hype. For a 'language' to have take hold so quickly, it feels like someone's manipulating things behind the scenes. For Klingon, you had hundreds of thousands of die hard trekkies. This can't already be that big... Can it?
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 15:28
Afr0	The cynic in me can't help but see this as nothing more than advanced hype. For a 'language' to have take hold so quickly, it feels like someone's manipulating things behind the scenes. It's advanced hype, but then it's not. It's not a 'language', it's an actual language. Cameron hired a linguist named Paul Frommer to create the language for the movie, he also added syntax and grammar. The press obviously caught hold of this, and Frommer has since done between 10 - 20 interviews that are available online. He's also got a really full inbox. The dictionary that includes the most words is in the book Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora. Besides that, Frommer has released bits of grammatical structure and extra words through emails, in interviews etc. There's also a huge article on Wikipedia which sums up most of what is currently known about the language (aside from the complete dictionary).
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 15:34
blanko1324	I disagree, Jay. I really applaud Cameron for delving this far into his imaginary world. He even fleshed out parts we never see onscreen. I think it really helped; you could tell while watching that Pandora was a very ...structured world, more so than most science fiction. That said, I ain't taking the time to learn the language.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 15:53
Jayenkai	I don't mind that it's been done. Nowadays you should take the time to bother to do that kind of stuff, or else nitpickers will complain.. It's just.. .. In, what, 3 weeks since the release? Or thereabouts.. That's a very large amount of stuff to happen in that amount of time. Just feels really forced to me.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 16:13
Afr0	In, what, 3 weeks since the release? Or thereabouts.. That's a very large amount of stuff to happen in that amount of time. Just feels really forced to me. Obviously the language wasn't developed in three weeks! Paul Frommer's been working on it for at least two years. But the official dictionary was never publicly available until after the movie was released.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 17:50
flying_cucco	What's Navi for "dust off and nuke the site from orbit"? It's the only way to be sure
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 03:20
Mog	Oh gee, more Avatar crap. Here's my contribution: View on YouTube May she eat your dreams, and your cake. And i agree with Cucco - Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to ensure total annihilation !
Saturday, 16 January 2010, 15:37
flying_cucco	lol: Hot Na'vi Sex (NSFW)
Sunday, 17 January 2010, 01:37
Mog	My soup drinker is now broken. Forever. Mad probs to cucco for that...

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