Episode 5 [Unedited]

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This is episode is the full, unedited interview with David Peterson, language creator. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. IMAGE CREDIT *David Peterson Photograph by Gage Skidmore EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring David J. Peterson , Language Creator Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick , Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Special thanks to the following editors who provided us invaluable feedback that aided in the development of this show: Christopher O’Keeffe , Co-Founder of Podcation Kristy Bennet , Manager – MIT Women’s League Jennifer Cherone , Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Laboratory Erik Tillman , Phd, Formerly of the Kim Lab & Currently A Fellow at Vida Ventures, LLC The Great Communicators Podcast is a part of Gradcommx. Gradcommx, targeted at enhancing research communication, is the first offering of Gradx – a professional development project created for the graduate student population at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Office For Graduate Education. MUSIC & SOUNDS “Divider” by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International License (http://freemusicarchive.org) EPISODE SCRIPT Print The Script Here [MUSIC PLAYING] ADAM GREENFIELD: Hello. Adam Greenfield, here, host of the Great Communicators podcast series. And what you’re about to hear is the full, unedited interview with one of the guests we spoke with. If you haven’t listened to the fully-produced episode yet, I definitely encourage you to do so before listening to this one. It is shorter in length, and much more refined. You can find them all at gradx.mit.edu/podcasts. The idea behind these longer, unedited conversations is to give you an opportunity to hear the entire talk, [INAUDIBLE] and all. This is not only a fun way to hear the full flow of the conversation, but it also emphasizes the importance of the points made in the shorter, produced episodes– which, again, can be found at gradx.mit.edu/podcasts. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the conversation. DAVID PETERSON: My name is David Peterson, and I’m a professional language creator and author. ADAM GREENFIELD: Author. And what have you written? DAVID PETERSON: Well, initially, Living Language– Dothraki, which was a teach-yourself guide for the Dothraki language. But most recently, The Art of Language Invention, which is an instructional book about how to create a language. ADAM GREENFIELD: Actually, that’s a question I’ll get to in a second, because I want to go through the thought process of creating a language. But to go back a little bit, when did you realize that there was this love of language and creating languages? DAVID PETERSON: My initial interest in language happened rather spontaneously. I grew up in a bilingual household, but due to an early divorce, I was disconnected from the Spanish-speaking side of my family. And so I didn’t gain full bilingual fluency, I became what’s called a heritage speaker. And so for many years, I was annoyed by the fact that my relatives could speak Spanish so well and I couldn’t,

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