na'vi

A new documentary chronicles the absurd misrepresentation of native people onscreen

On almost every level, says this critic, ‘Avatar’ is a sub-prime performance

James Cameron’s Golden Globe-winning movie has single-handedly brought back old-fashioned movie magic

A strong late entry in the “significant word of 2009” sweepstakes would be the noun and verb “conlang”. A conlang is any consciously constructed language; familiar examples include “auxlangs” developed in earnest for international use, like Esperanto, but the hot new conlang is the tongue developed for the giant soft-porn Smurfs in James Cameron’s Avatar by business professor and linguist Paul Frommer.