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I'm not going to create my own language, but I'm an English nerd, and I thought this was a really good time. Peterson is pretty funny as well.

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Too much detail and I‘m not interested enough, so oh well... This would work for someone else I‘m sure.

This is a little more hardcore than I expected. The introduction was more focused on the conlang community history than I expected and since I know nothing about any of this, it was pretty slow going. Hmm.

For the kind of language nerd who thrills to discussion of dative case nouns, alveolar sounds & pluperfect verb forms. It got a bit too granular even for me at times, & I enjoyed Peterson's examples from natural languages more than invented ones. Constructing languages is a new career while 100s of world languages disappear. Interesting.

He was the hulkiest, dreamiest mountain of a human being ever to speak a created language and he was speaking MY language. Try calling HIM a nerd and see how far you get.

[Jason Momoa as Drogo, screen grab from Game of Thrones fan site http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Drogo]

"From Horse-lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-building." Just 20 minutes into this audiobook and it is totally my jam.

This book has been on my to-read list for the longest time. I finally went out and bought myself a copy.

Fascinating read

Crazy in-depth examination of language structure and evolution and how that is used to create naturalistic languages like Dothraki, Valyrian, Sindarin, Quenya, etc. Peterson knows of what he speaks since he's the language creator for GoT, Thor 2, Defiance, and The 100 to name a few. Super nerdy.