Learn Dothraki and Valyrian

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lajaki on February 06, 2011, 01:43:26 pm

Title: Chat Thread!
Post by: Lajaki on February 06, 2011, 01:43:26 pm
This is for random chatter, since we're a small community at the moment and we probably don't have any serious spammers as of yet.

How's it going? Why are you here?
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Lajaki on February 07, 2011, 03:51:51 am
I've linked us on the ASOAIF boards, and on twitter. Should have an influx soon, I hope!
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: ShadowedSin on February 07, 2011, 03:29:11 pm
Faring well!

With my more extensive work in Conlanging I understand terminology a lot more and I can tell you than I can't wait to sink my teeth into Dothraki :)

If I had more time I would be speaking Na'vi, but since I'm more interested ASOIAF more than Avatar Dothraki is gaining more attention.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Lajaki on February 08, 2011, 03:41:44 am
Yeah, ASOAIF is a lot more sustainable, fan-wise, than Avatar.

Slä - fko sìltsan leiu alu tìpuslltxe Na'viyä lì'fyayä.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: ShadowedSin on February 08, 2011, 02:21:30 pm
Sigh didn't get too much into it but I am reading the Na'vi notes lol.

Fyhen Shush, eune thilosh heis.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: KoErin on April 03, 2011, 09:17:54 am
I think I'm the only not-into-conlanging-thing nerd around here... Most of you know 3 or 4 languages. My languages are not but programming languages.

You guys speak to people in Na'vi, Swedish, Italian, Latim, Hebrew, and possibly Klingon. I talk to computers in C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and a little Ruby and Python. At least, it's something I know about and you guys don't. :P

Also, I suck at English, but I'm very good at Portuguese.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: ingsve on April 03, 2011, 09:29:34 am
I think I'm the only not-into-conlanging-thing nerd around here... Most of you know 3 or 4 languages. My languages are not but programming languages.

You guys speak to people in Na'vi, Swedish, Italian, Latim, Hebrew, and possibly Klingon. I talk to computers in C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and a little Ruby and Python. At least, it's something I know about and you guys don't. :P

Also, I suck at English, but I'm very good at Portuguese.

Well, I wouldn't call myself a conlanging-thing nerd either. Dothraki is the only conlang that I've gotten into. I have read a few languages in school by primarily I'm a science nerd so we're not that far apart I would say. I don't know any real programming languages though. I've only really programmed a little bit in MATLAB.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Jenny on April 03, 2011, 02:27:15 pm
Definitely a conlang-nerd. Never thought I'd become one though!
Pretty much a language-nerd in general.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: KoErin on April 03, 2011, 03:44:50 pm
I think I'm the only not-into-conlanging-thing nerd around here... Most of you know 3 or 4 languages. My languages are not but programming languages.

You guys speak to people in Na'vi, Swedish, Italian, Latim, Hebrew, and possibly Klingon. I talk to computers in C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and a little Ruby and Python. At least, it's something I know about and you guys don't. :P

Also, I suck at English, but I'm very good at Portuguese.

Well, I wouldn't call myself a conlanging-thing nerd either. Dothraki is the only conlang that I've gotten into. I have read a few languages in school by primarily I'm a science nerd so we're not that far apart I would say. I don't know any real programming languages though. I've only really programmed a little bit in MATLAB.

Indeed, we're not that far apart. I also play a little bit with MATLAB (or, at least, with Octave, which is pretty much the same thing). Ingsve, do you work with signals and stuff?
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Lajaki on April 03, 2011, 04:27:03 pm
I need to learn MATLAB. I know python.

Jenny, what languages do you speak now? :P
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: ingsve on April 03, 2011, 07:07:01 pm
Indeed, we're not that far apart. I also play a little bit with MATLAB (or, at least, with Octave, which is pretty much the same thing). Ingsve, do you work with signals and stuff?

I don't work with anything at the moment. I recently graduated and I'm currently unemployed. I've been doing some substitute teaching at some schools in town but otherwise I'm looking for a job. My speciality is more towards solar cells and power cells. My thesis work was done on polymer electrolytes for dye-sensitized solar cells.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Jenny on April 04, 2011, 05:57:24 am
Jenny, what languages do you speak now? :P

Hmm.. Well Swedish and English, German and Spanish..
I would like to say that I'm fluent in Na'vi, and I'm still slowly learning Sami.
Soon I can hopefully add Dothraki to the list!  ;)
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: KoErin on April 05, 2011, 04:37:30 pm
Indeed, we're not that far apart. I also play a little bit with MATLAB (or, at least, with Octave, which is pretty much the same thing). Ingsve, do you work with signals and stuff?

I don't work with anything at the moment. I recently graduated and I'm currently unemployed. I've been doing some substitute teaching at some schools in town but otherwise I'm looking for a job. My speciality is more towards solar cells and power cells. My thesis work was done on polymer electrolytes for dye-sensitized solar cells.

This seems very interesting, really. I'm graduating in Computer Engineering, with emphasis in signals and systems,  and software engineering (pretty different sutff). Also, a little bit web development (programming, not designing); that's what I currently work with. Here at my unversity, there are some colleagues that collect data about solar exposure of some regions using microcontrolers to automate some movement.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: akiwiguy on April 10, 2011, 06:01:40 pm
I think I'm the only not-into-conlanging-thing nerd around here... Most of you know 3 or 4 languages. My languages are not but programming languages.

You guys speak to people in Na'vi, Swedish, Italian, Latim, Hebrew, and possibly Klingon. I talk to computers in C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and a little Ruby and Python. At least, it's something I know about and you guys don't. :P

Also, I suck at English, but I'm very good at Portuguese.

I'm learning Na'vi and Dothraki, and I know C, PHP, HTML, CSS, Visual Basic .NET, and a bit of Python.

And I'm 14!
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Lajaki on April 11, 2011, 02:32:40 am
The last sentence says it all, really.

Really cool, man. I need to learn C at some point.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: ShadowedSin on April 17, 2011, 03:45:25 pm
By the end of the year I will have hopefully five hundred words in Amazon. Yeah I'm like one of the major Conlang fanatics here.

Fyhen Shush - Good Bye.
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Izzi on May 29, 2011, 12:43:19 pm
Hello everyone!

Pleased to meet other Dothraki enthusiasts. I have been an avid (some will say obsessed) fan of ASoIaF for years now and am looking forward to share this learning experience with other fans! I've always wanted to learn a created language. I'm an army brat and know French, English and Italian and always considered learning Esperanto as well as Klingon. But I've been saying to myself that I'd learn Klingon for years now and... well... yeah!...

But I think Dothraki is something I could realistically learn. I have no problems spending a couple of hours a day reading material on Dothraki and hope one day maybe I could be of use to this group in any little way I can.

I noticed some members of this group have chosen Dothraki names. I like that. What is your criteria for choosing a name? If I were to choose a Dothraki name, I think my nickname Izzy should be good? (or Izzi?) Hopefully, in future dictionary updates, Izzy won't mean something foul! lol

So yeah. Again, pleased to meet you all! Thank you Admins for this forum! And I raise my... Arakh to what I hope is the beginning of a new chapter in conlang history! Just glad (hope) that I can be part of it!

Dothraki FTW!
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: ingsve on May 29, 2011, 02:43:00 pm
Hello everyone!

Pleased to meet other Dothraki enthusiasts. I have been an avid (some will say obsessed) fan of ASoIaF for years now and am looking forward to share this learning experience with other fans! I've always wanted to learn a created language. I'm an army brat and know French, English and Italian and always considered learning Esperanto as well as Klingon. But I've been saying to myself that I'd learn Klingon for years now and... well... yeah!...

But I think Dothraki is something I could realistically learn. I have no problems spending a couple of hours a day reading material on Dothraki and hope one day maybe I could be of use to this group in any little way I can.

I noticed some members of this group have chosen Dothraki names. I like that. What is your criteria for choosing a name? If I were to choose a Dothraki name, I think my nickname Izzy should be good? (or Izzi?) Hopefully, in future dictionary updates, Izzy won't mean something foul! lol

So yeah. Again, pleased to meet you all! Thank you Admins for this forum! And I raise my... Arakh to what I hope is the beginning of a new chapter in conlang history! Just glad (hope) that I can be part of it!

Dothraki FTW!

Hi, and welcome. We had an IRC chat with David Peterson who created the language and he said he read your post here. He said that izzat mean "to poison" so Izzi would probably be a Dothraki name that means something like "She who poisons". I don't know if you would see that as foul or if you perhaps have a mischievous side that fits the desription at least in spirit (and hopefully not literally).
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: Izzi on May 29, 2011, 03:05:56 pm

Hi, and welcome. We had an IRC chat with David Peterson who created the language and he said he read your post here. He said that izzat mean "to poison" so Izzi would probably be a Dothraki name that means something like "She who poisons". I don't know if you would see that as foul or if you perhaps have a mischievous side that fits the desription at least in spirit (and hopefully not literally).
"I've heard it said that poison is a woman's weapon."
 Ned Stark

Wow!! Love it! I was really hoping it wasn't going to mean something like latrine. Hahaha! But "she who poisons"? That is (mischievously) awesome!

Thank you Ingsve!

Peterson, you rock!
Title: Re: Chat Thread!
Post by: ValekLost on June 12, 2011, 08:45:43 am
Hi :D

I've noticed this post only now.
I'm not a conlanger or a conlang geek, but I'm very fascinating by foreign languages, and at school I've been studied for years English, French, German and a little bit of Spanish. And this, at the end, involves conglang too, because I easily become a big-big-fan-of-something, and I throw myself into that world.

My biggest problem btw it's the lack of will for "academic studies", so I've learned good only English and a bit of French (though now it's quite rusty, because I listen to it often but I write/speak it a lot less, so I hope to take off some dust to it with you on this forum :D..and any correction/criticism is welcomed, given that also my English Grammar is not so clean at the moment) hating studying for all the rest.

And for this, out of the school I read a lot of things I would have NEVER read inside a college/university/seminar/private course XD and as I didn't study so much the languages I had to for school or learned other languages in general..as I learned Sindarin from LoTR, also if I haven't been read nothing about it for years, so at the momento I don't remember too much.
I'll fix that after learning Dothraki :P

It's a pity I cannot write in my curriculum "known languages: English, French, Sindarin and Dothraki", but really I'm NOT able to study something useful and "real" in this way <.<"
Ok. I'm definitely insane.

Last thing, I'm Italian guy and nice to meet you all :D