An example that gave (and still gives) me the creeps: A guy seeing videos with lots of blood (vino) and a gang rape (the old in-out)<p><i>And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the red, red vino on tap, the same in all places like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow. It was beautiful. It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. Now all the time I was watching this, I was beginning to get very aware of like not feeling all that well, and this I put down to all the rich food and vitamins, but I tried to forget this, concentrating on the next film which jumped right away on a young devotchka who was being given the old in-out, in-out first by one malchick, then another, then another...When it came to the sixth or seventh malchick, leering and smecking and then going into it, I began to feel really sick.</i><p>From Clockwork Orange
I have been learning Lojban off-and-on for a while. I think the core idea behind it is very interesting: sentences as logical predicates. The root word concept is powerful. But I feel like most of the rest of it is too complex. They could have would up with Prolog. Instead they wound up with C++, where everything they could think of wound up in the language. That said, it's still big and inspiring. But a lot of talk about Lojban turns into talking about whether a sentence is valid or not.<p>The software ecosystem around it has grown up a huge amount in the last few years.
Here is an episode of Lexicon Valley with an interview with David J. Peterson, the language creator for Game of Thrones. [1] The amount of depth that has been put into the Dothraki language is very impressive.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2015/05/lexicon_valley_dothraki_and_valyrian_inventor_david_j_peterson_on_creating.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2015/0...</a>
<a href="http://reddit.com/r/conlangs" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/conlangs</a> is a wonderful community of language creators (conlang = constructed language). It's surprisingly popular, there are many posts a day there. There are other forums and blogs and such as well.
I actually like the idea of invented auxiliary languages like Esperanto. I've spent 10% of the time on it that I did on Spanish in HS and understand probably 5x as much due to the grammar. No gendered nouns, suffixes and prefixes on words to keep extraneous vocabulary down...etc. Also, having one sound per letter and no trilling R is nice.
People interested in this topic will enjoy the book "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Akira Okrent [1]. It's an easy non-technical read.<p>[1]<a href="http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/" rel="nofollow">http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/</a>