Yes indeed, and once again it was for defending myself against false charges, and for standing up for the scholarly method. I'm happy to do it. -- ...
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finsen@...
ravenduongla...
Dec 15, 2004 11:16 am
Hi Anthony, Try linking the two lines http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp? & ForumID=42&TopicID=162889&PagePosition=1 into one URL. "caio"...
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Anthony
amateur_ling...
Dec 15, 2004 11:06 am
No disrespect intended, but I am a newbie to Elvish and am learning as much as I can as I go along. What is "caio"? Is that Quenya? It doesn't look like...
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ravenduongladash
ravenduongla...
Dec 15, 2004 7:36 am
Obviously "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is gathering dust on the shelves? http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp? ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 11, 2004 3:06 pm
And coming hard on its heels, _another_ similarly "fact"-filled post, ... No, the words "stop mutation" were NOT deleted, nor are the parentheses editorial:...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 11, 2004 2:56 pm
In Elfling message 30900 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30900>), "Gildor ... No, you most certainly did not, because I never said this,...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 25, 2004 1:56 pm
I have written a first-look review of David Salo's _Gateway to Sindarin_, detailing some of the serious scholarly defects evident in it from even a cursory...
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jonathan_avidan
Nov 16, 2004 8:23 am
... that ... And still we might deduct some rules regarding to its usage (or non- usage, specifically). Can you think of any examples in which the contraction...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 16, 2004 1:37 am
... Nice reference! ;) But in fact, the two cases are not syntactically equivalent, I would say. *_vinyar_ 'news' is a nominalization of an adjective; while...
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jonathan_avidan
Nov 15, 2004 8:48 pm
... Declinable ... demonstrate, ... some ... Just like when making a noun out of an adjective, which would explain _vinyar_ for "news" ;) Also, is it possible...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 15, 2004 2:15 pm
... This might be a variation on the rule that Tolkien stipulated for names in apposition in UT:317 n.43, exemplified by _Elendil Vorondo_ 'of Elendil the...
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jonathan_avidan
Nov 15, 2004 12:28 pm
Tolkien's signed dedication in Quenya, recently published, also demonstrates apparently "redundant" datives: _Elainen, tarin Periandion, ar meldenya anyaaran_ ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 14, 2004 2:43 pm
In Elfling message 30623 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30623>), Sébastien ... I don't think this can count as a general objection, in light...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 5, 2004 9:59 pm
In Elfling message 30553 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30553>), David Salo ... Er... no, it isn't. All one has to do is avoid claiming more...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Oct 28, 2004 1:58 am
In Elfling message 30485 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30485>), Helge ... Helge, you might retain a shred of credibility on matters Elvish if...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Sep 28, 2004 5:59 pm
In Elfling message 30375 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30375>), Thomas Ferencz ... But _Qenya_ _ista-_ was already transitive in...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Sep 8, 2004 4:23 pm
In Elfling message 30297 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30297>), Helge ... You believe incorrectly, as so often when you neglect to provide...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 31, 2004 11:40 pm
... It's certainly not out of the question, though it might indeed have been entirely out of his hands. I wouldn't be at all surprised though if the publisher...
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finsen@...
ravenduongla...
Aug 31, 2004 12:29 pm
Akk....journal, it's journal.....cursed microsoft spell checker *grumble....* And involvement.....sheesh.......I just blame my knees..... ... From:...
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finsen@...
ravenduongla...
Aug 31, 2004 12:25 pm
Out of interest, do you think David actually has any say in who/what/how the "peer review" is performed and who by? Mostly (with the few that I have had...
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falmarendur
Aug 31, 2004 3:17 am
... rather than hobbyists? ... I think that a qualyfied linguist isn't the same that a person who knows about Tolkienian languages: you don't need to be a...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 31, 2004 2:29 am
... While true in the main -- I dare say the "academic 'industry'" is almost completely unaware that there IS such a thing as "Tolkienian linguistics", just as...
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finsen@...
ravenduongla...
Aug 31, 2004 2:15 am
True, I wasn't disagreeing with you. As has been previously discussed on this list, the academic "industry"; does not take the field of Tolkien Linguistics...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 31, 2004 12:27 am
Perhaps, as I in fact allowed. But that's rather my point, isn't it? Being a "qualified linguist" does not mean that one has any familiarity at all with the...
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finsen@...
ravenduongla...
Aug 31, 2004 12:23 am
It could be that it was actually reviewed by qualified linguists rather than hobbyists? caio Graeme ... <snip> This message was sent through MyMail...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 30, 2004 10:48 pm
From Dorothea Salo's blog of this date (<http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2004/08/30/heuristics-and- ... Just who, we wonders, were these "peer...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 29, 2004 11:36 pm
Carl wrote, regarding Helge Fauskanger's statement that he and David Salo "tend to think that the intended reading [of †_eglant_] is *_eglent_, the final...
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Carl F.Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 29, 2004 8:01 pm
In Elfling message 30262 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30262>), Helge ... Just who are these "various researchers"? I believe the only...
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"Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond
Aug 16, 2004 6:54 am
... I do not think so. Like "indefinite" and "habitual";, "Gnomic" presumably indicates the usage range for the aorist tense. It says that aorist can be used as...
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falmarendur
Aug 16, 2004 6:18 am
Aiya, in PE14, on page 34, there's something that calls my mind: in the presentation of the Qenya aorist, it says: "Aorist. Indefinite or habitual or Gnomic"....
