Chipanglish » Movies http://www.chipanglish.com Blogging semi-coherently in Chinese, Japanese, and English Sat, 01 May 2010 01:46:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Invented Languages http://www.chipanglish.com/psychology/inventedlanguages/ http://www.chipanglish.com/psychology/inventedlanguages/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:40:49 +0000 Peter http://www.chipanglish.com/?p=711 Avatar, linguists around the world have a new invented language to expose their geekiness: Na'vi. Poised to join the ranks of other invented languages like Esperanto, Quenya (aka High-Elvish), and Klingon, Na'vi is sure to amass a following of nerds and linguists at future nerd conventions like Comic-con.]]> With the popularity of the film, Avatar, linguists around the world have a new invented language to expose their geekiness: Na’vi.

Poised to join the ranks of other invented languages like Esperanto, Quenya (aka High-Elvish), and Klingon, Na’vi is sure to amass a following of nerds and linguists at future nerd conventions like Comic-con.

But philosophically, it calls into a greater question. What makes a language a language? Vocabulary? Native speakers? A grammar filled with syntax, phonology, phonetics, morphology, and semantics?

Having tried to create my own fictional language, I can tell you it is a lot more sophisticated than just making up words.

Anyway, score another one for the linguistic nerds out there!

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]]> http://www.chipanglish.com/psychology/inventedlanguages/feed/ 2 A Compendium of Useless Spanish Phrases http://www.chipanglish.com/spanish/useless_movie_phrases/ http://www.chipanglish.com/spanish/useless_movie_phrases/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:06:21 +0000 Yvonne http://www.chipanglish.com/?p=576
  • ¡Inconcebible! Sigue usando esa palabra. No creo que significa lo que cree que significa.
  • ¡No soy zurdo! ¡No tampoco zurdo!
    • ]]>     In keeping with theme of my last post and Khatzumoto’s immerse-in-fun strategy, I’ve been watching some of my favorite movies with the Spanish language tracks turned on. I do want to learn how to say “launch photon torpedoes” in Japanese someday, but that will have to wait until we have some Japanese movies that aren’t Miyazaki or Kurosawa works.

    In the meantime, you can probably guess what I watched today from this list:

    • ¡Inconcebible! Sigue usando esa palabra. No creo que significa lo que cree que significa.
    • ¡No soy zurdo! ¡No tampoco zurdo!
    • el Pantano de Fuego
    • Buenas noches, Westley, buen trabajo, probablemente te mate en la mañana.
    • ¡Hasta la muerte! ¡No, hasta el dolor!
    • ¿Qué tal? Mi nombre es Iñigo Montoya. Mataste a mi padre. Prepárate para morir.

    The Princess Bride Movie I can’t quite make out what the Spanish for Rodents of Unusual Sizes is. The subtitles say Roedores de Tamaño Extraordinario, but that definitely doesn’t match the dialogue.

    Chipanglish: Compiling impractical phrases in multiple languages since 2009.

    Yes, I did happen to learn quite a bit of useful Spanish too, though I’m guessing the frequency of people yelling “¡Corre(n)!” in the movie world is a lot higher than in real life. “¡No comas eso!”, my personal Waterloo from months back, made an early appearance in Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban.

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