Name: 電影中的自創語言是怎麼來的？ (Credited As: ConLangers (How to Create a Language))
Uploaded: 2018-04-24T21:01:01.000Z
Duration: 6 min 24 s

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Peterson: the biggest misconception about language creation

Peterson：關於語言創造最大的誤解

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Is that it's just a matter of taking an english dictionary

有人會認為就只是拿起英文字典

從中組織、建構一個新形式出來

a really bizarre way of speaking English.

we can create an infinite number of messages.

Okrand: It's not bringing to life something that i've created.

Okrand：這不是為我創造的東西帶來生命

It's bringing to better life something that somebody else has created.

這是為他人創造的東西，帶來更好的樣貌

Peterson: "Conlang" means a constructed language,

Peterson：「人工語言」意思是個建構而成的語言

when i'm creating a new language for a new project

當我為了一個新專案創造新的語言時

is I sit down with either the show runner, or the director if it's a film, and the producers.

我會先跟製作人或導演，如果他是部影片，還有作家坐下來談談

I grill them about who is speaking this language,

我有參與製作《雷神索爾 2：黑暗世界》

had worked with me on HBO's "Game of Thrones."

有跟我合作過 HBO 的影集《權力遊戲》

what they wanted was a language for the dark elves --

他們想要的是一個黑暗精靈的語言

kind of one of the bad guys in the Thor universe.

黑暗精靈是漫威宇宙中的反派之一

Frommer: The world that James Cameron created on Pandora

Frommer：James．Cameron 創造的潘朵拉星球

to understand that world to the best of my ability.

And then to create a language which would be appropriate for people living in that environment.

然後創造一個適合這環境中的居民的語言

Okrand: In making up Klingon, i tried very, very hard

Okrand：創作克林貢語時，我非常非常努力

all we knew about them is they're mean, horrible,

我們所了解的他們是一群卑鄙、可怕

"How come you made the Klingon language like my language?

「你怎麼能把克林貢語做得像我的語言？

What's that saying about me? That's an insult."

別人會怎麼說我？這是一種侮辱。」

Peterson: The first discussion that we have

Peterson：我們第一個要面對的議題是

it's reminiscent of the Finnish language.

它們有一堆念起來頭重腳輕的文字

where there's nice prominence right at the beginning.

在一開始就能顯現出它們的特點

Which you can find in Polynesian languages.

你可以在馬來-玻里尼西亞語族找到一點相似之處

But also sounds which are not found in those languages --

但與那些語系也有相當大的差異

the -- the best known ones are called ejectives,

they sound like "[pops lips] ah" or "[clicks] eh"

聽起來像「趴阿」或是「給欸」

Okrand: for Klingon, the script said explicitly

Okrand：以克林貢語來說，這份文本寫得很明確

I've had two kind of basic things in mind.

One was it had to sound weird and alien and not like anything,

第一就是它必須聽起來很詭異、像外星人，且不能與其他語言相似

and two, the actors had to be able to learn it and say it.

第二，演員必須能學會而且說出來

So, the thing was pronounceable and learnable.

所以它要是可以發音的，可以學習的

Which means success. That's my favorite word.

Peterson：當你真的對創造語言感興趣

and that thing pretty much has to be complete.

are not unlike parts of speech in more familiar languages.

"Eytukan gave Neythiri this beautiful necklace."

「Eytukan 給 Neythiri 這條美麗的項鍊。」

Okrand：舉個例子，對克林貢語來說

There was Klingon in "star trek: the motion picture."

在《星艦迷航記》中已經有克林貢人的設定

So I kind of imposed a grammatical structure on it.

所以我稍微在它的基礎上加入文法架構

Is that one word or two words or three words?

它聽起來是一個字、兩個字還是三個字呢？

"Cha" was one word. "Yighus" is another word.

「掐」是一個字，「以互許」是另一個字

It's supposed to be an alien language unlike anything else.

這樣聽起來應該比較像外星語，跟其他人類語言有所差異

are the subject, the verb, and the object.

and the least common is when the object comes first.

所以我選它當克林貢語的文法架構

Peterson: when I actually translate a line,

Peterson：實際上我在翻譯一個句子時

What I do is there's the English line up top,

then there's a line below that shows them

然後下面再一個句子，跟讀者說明

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