... No. What has avoiding a connotation of "possessing" sentient beings to do with the idea of possessing happiness? ... [Non-text portions of this message...
Aiya! ... CFH> No. What has avoiding a connotation of "possessing" sentient CFH> beings to do with the idea of possessing happiness? Unfortunately I do not...
... Whether or not that was Tolkien's intention at that specific time, it is inarguable that Quenya _did_ at other times have a means to express possession or...
Hello, [Boris:] ... [Carl:] ... A language can have a verb meaning 'possess' and still not use it to express possesion routinely. Our own (mine and Boris')...
Helge Fauskanger writes ... Can Helge truly be unaware that a "complete Quenya pronoun table" has already been published, in _Vinyar Tengwar_ 43 (p. 29; you...
In Elfling post 24986 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/24986>), approved by one of the list's moderators: From: "Helge K. Fauskanger"...
It's been awfully quiet on Elfling today. You can hear a credibility drop. Or maybe there's a whole lotta "moderatin'" goin' on... A reminder that anyone who...
... I cannot speak for any other Elfling moderators, but I have passed everything through unchanged in the past two days, with only two exceptions: 1) One...
Thanks for the further information, Kai. And may I add that you seem to be the best and most unbiased moderator on Elfling. I would _gladly_ submit to your...
... But if you look again at the specific examples Pat cited (which I append to this message), and note that David Salo was responsible for both "moderating"...
... I hasten to add, that I mean that I would gladly do so _iff_ Helge and David Salo were likewise subject to Kai's moderation. Of course, if _that_ happened,...
Furthermore: not only was David Salo transparently bias and hypocritical in policing Pat Wynne's post while simultaneously approving Petri's screed, it was...
... credibility ... Since the 16th there have been about 90 posts that have landed in the moderation queue. Of those 90, I rejected 8 of them. The eight are...
In Elfling message 25006, "Elimloth"; (one of the moderators of Elfling) ... It is perfectly understandable that anyone can make an unintended slip. Were this...
Thank you for the further information, Rene. It's good to see that two of Elfling's moderators are on this list; it gives us a good forum for airing these...
Perhaps one of the Elfling moderators could explain why it is that Patrick Wynne, who has been a member of Elfling for many years now, and to my knowledge has...
Aiya! Friday, May 23, 2003, 3:28:44 PM, Carl F . Hostetter wrote: CFH> Perhaps one of the Elfling moderators could explain why it is that CFH> Patrick Wynne,...
... Indeed, but this doesn't explain why Pat is _still_ subject to prior approval. (Indeed, it raises yet another specter of hypocrisy: What had Pat ever...
... That's been on my mind for the past couple of days, as well. As you might guess, I don't really spend time going through the Elfling subscriber list ...
... **If you mean the _ó-_ chart, then I do not think Helge is unaware of it. He is, but he does not regard it as a complete Quenya pronoun table -- I think....
I agree that the chart is enigmatic, as it is unglossed; but I disagree that it is incomplete. To argue that it is, you must show that something is missing...
I would like to ask another couple of questions of the Elfling moderators: 1) have any of Helge's postings _ever_ been moderated back to him, and 2) has he...
... Naturally, I cannot speak for any other moderator. Unfortunately, I cannot say with any certainty for myself, either. I perform such activities via Yahoo!...
... [...] Yes, he tends to go for those well honed jabs at emotionally sensitive areas. It is a trait I have asked him (and others) to elide from postings to...
... That's a fair summary of my stance, as well. ... I'd let it through if it stopped with the first two questions: "Does Helge really want to know why...
... **Well, what is actually missing are glosses of the Quenya forms, but this of course does not make the table incomplete per se. Nevertheless, missing...
