In our May 1 meeting, we’ll discuss creating languages for fiction. How much depth do you need for your story, and how can you make a fictional language feel “real” to your audience? Do you just need a “naming language” so you can sprinkle in a few place-names? Do you need a few spoken phrases? We’ll talk about how to give your language a sound scheme that feels like a coherent whole so that it hangs together from the start, and we’ll discuss some of the common variants on syntax and word order that you can exploit so that your fictional language isn’t just a word-for-word cipher for English.
Presenters: Lynn Spitz and Hugh Sullivan
Location: Barnes & Noble, Pittsford
Meeting Time: May 1, 2018 from 7-9 p.m.
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| R-SPEC_2018-05_Flyer.pdf | 777.23 KB |
| R-SPEC_Notes_on_Conlangs_May_2018.pdf | 499.29 KB |
| R-SPEC_Creating_Fictional_Languages_May_2018.pdf | 561.65 KB |
