Tonight's the last episode of #GameOfThrones , and if you'll allow, I'd like to reflect. The whole things started for me ten years ago on September 9th—the first day of the Dothraki competition. But the real story starts before that. (Longish thread.) #conlang

Back when they were auditioning actors, Dan Weiss and David Benioff had some gibberish lines for the Dothraki, and had those auditioning kind of make stuff up, and they found the results unsatisfactory. They decided they needed a real language for the Dothraki to speak.

At that point, they COULD have done a number of things. They could've asked their assistant to make something up. They could've gone to Google Translate and done a mashup. They could've reached out to a random nearby linguistics department. Other productions have done just that.