Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Utúvienyes!

Facebook's new profile format emphasizes your multilingualism and a number of fiction's best constructed languages are legit options in their drop-down menu. So far, you can flaunt your fluency in:
  • Klingon (Star Trek)
  • Na'vi (Avatar)
  • Esperanto (various)
  • Newspeak (1984)
  • Nadsat (A Clockwork Orange)
  • Sindarin, Quenya, Westron, Khuzdul, and the Black Speech (Lord of the Rings)
Still missing:
  • Huttese (Star Wars)
  • Orth, Qwghlmian (Neal Stephenson various)
  • Fremen, Gallach (Dune)
  • High D'Haran (Sword of Truth)
  • Parseltongue (Harry Potter)
  • Dothraki (Song of Ice and Fire)
  • ...many I've forgotten, I'm sure.
It's just another way to let your geek flag fly. For personal enjoyment, you can also change your Facebook display language to Pirate (avast!).

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