彼得森最初的目标是当一名高中英文教师。在伯克利念本科时，有一半墨西哥血统、会说西班牙语的彼得森出于兴趣学习过不同语言。他学过一点阿拉伯文，还学了一学期的俄文。在母亲的建议下，他开始学习语言学，这激发了他对创造语言的兴趣。

Once he started he realised there was no chance he would ever stop. “It’s addictive,” he says. He has always had tunnel vision when it comes to his personal passions. When he was very young it was drawing, then writing, until he became focused on languages.

他发现自己的研究一发不可收拾。他表示：“这会让人上瘾。”他对自己的兴趣一向非常投入。小时候他迷过绘画，然后是写作，最后，他的兴趣集中到了语言学上。

The work satisfies the mathematical side of his brain, he says, by trying to “solve the problem of communication”. But it is also artistic. “Filling out a lexicon means filling out the back story. It is not purely mechanical.”

他表示，尝试“解决沟通的问题”，满足了他头脑中的数学一面。但这一工作也具有艺术性。“填写一个词语，意味着填写一段历史。这不是纯粹机械的工作。”

The transformational moment for conlangers was Klingon. Marc Okrand, a linguist, was hired to create a language for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Klingons had largely spoken English in the original Star Trek television series), which was released in 1984.

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