Talk:Language Creation Society
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who hired whom?[edit]
| “ | To date, the LCS has been hired by HBO, and contracted David J. Peterson to create the Dothraki language for its series Game of Thrones .... | ” |
As structured, this says that the LCS (rather than HBO directly) hired Peterson; is that the case? Also, as LCS is the subject of the sentence, "its" can naturally be taken to mean LCS's. —Tamfang (talk) 21:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- If I understand correctly (I was one of the peer reviewers for the application process), HBO hired the LCS to find someone, and LCS conducted the application process, filtering the 30+ apps to a smaller number to show the producers and let them pick one. David's Dothraki was work for hire for HBO, but whether he was working directly for HBO or with a three-way contract involving LCS as well, I'm not sure. LCS is his agent for the job.--Jim Henry (talk) 23:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Spurious quotes?[edit]
<ref name="Usona">{{Cite web |url=http://jimhenry.conlang.org/conlang/dothraki-interview.html |title="Dothraki and Esperanto: an interview with language creator [[David J. Peterson]]." ''Usona Esperantisto'', 2010:5 }}</ref>
The above ref is getting extra quotes thrown around the whole thing, though it doesn't need them. Is there a way to suppress that? --Jim Henry (talk) 23:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
