... Can't -lla be a finite verb ending in Narqelion? -lle and -lya are attested in later Quenya, and seem as close to -lla as -la is. There are also nalla,...
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Jerry Caveney
jcaveney@...
Dec 2, 1998 12:28 am
Hello to all on this list. I am Jerry Caveney, and am introducing myself in accordance with the invitation to do so that I received upon subscribing. I have...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
Dec 2, 1998 12:28 am
Again if you are reading this on the egroups website, you may need to hit the "read source" button, because otherwise the tables will be scrambled. Next time...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Dec 2, 1998 1:06 am
... It's quite recent; its inception date was 9/5/98, and it didn't really get going for a couple of weeks after that. If you have web access, you needn't miss...
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Thaddaeus A. Vick
thaddaeusv@...
Dec 3, 1998 1:06 am
Dear friends, I am Thaddaeus A. Vick, and I have just joined this list, so here is my introduction. I am 23 years old, and a freshman at Berry College in ...
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jcb@...
Dec 3, 1998 1:06 am
In article <v03130301b28a3daeb722@[144.92.180.113]> Dorothea Salo ... Just for information, about half the membership of Elfling is also on TolkLang (and...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Dec 3, 1998 1:08 pm
... Possibly, although I think there may be a little more to it than just this one word. It so happens that Spanish permits only dental/alveolar consonants in...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Dec 3, 1998 11:17 pm
I had a very interesting discussing with David Salo about Anaxartaron Onyalie a few months ago. First with onyalie. I think it is onya + lie, but "lie" is here...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 4, 1998 12:37 am
... Yes, final M does become N, if that is what you mean. Cf. a word like _talan_ "floor", pl. _talami_ because the stem is TALAM. ... _Atan_ must be assumed...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
Dec 5, 1998 12:12 am
David Salo <dsalo@...> wrote: <HR> <HTML> <BODY> <PRE> **Thank you for writing this excellent article. It explains something that had bothered me for...
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JAMES FERGUSON
fergfam@...
Dec 5, 1998 9:51 pm
Hello, My name is Derek Ferguson. I am new to this list, but I have been on TolkLang for quite a while. I found it through Helge Fauskanger's Ardalambion...
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Thaddaeus A. Vick
thaddaeusv@...
Dec 5, 1998 9:51 pm
... Actually, there is no "Klingon alphabet". The symbols you see do not say anything, they were created by the graphic designer, not the linguist. They were...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 7, 1998 3:58 am
Tolkien's Elvish languages are, of course, properly spelled using the alphabets (e.g. cirth, tengwar, Rúmilian sarati and other alphabets which remain...
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psmc@...
Dec 7, 1998 1:08 pm
Ar Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:56:27 -0600, scríobh tú: All: Sometime back I saw an article on the various world alphabets being encoded for Unicode. Among the...
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John Garth
john_garth@...
Dec 7, 1998 1:08 pm
Hello This is my first message on this list. I'm a sub-editor on the London Evening Standard but I have been interested in Tolkien's languages since before I'd...
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BP.Jonsson
bpj@...
Dec 7, 1998 1:55 pm
At 21:56 6.12.1998 -0600, David Salo wrote: [snip] ... The same goes, of course, mutatio mutandis, for Sindarin, where he used _i_ for /j/. It seems strange,...
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Rich Alderson
ALDERSON@...
Dec 8, 1998 2:19 am
... The Etruscans used three letters to spell /k/: Before <I> and <E>, they used (grump--graphemes ought to be easier than this, <C> just won't do) < < > ...
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BP.Jonsson
bpj@...
Dec 8, 1998 2:19 am
... The Unicode encoding of Tengwar is a bit deficient: it lacks some tehtar (e.g. the upside-down a-tehta used for English [ae] in at least one document...
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?
thestyl@...
Dec 8, 1998 2:29 am
hello! I am new here and I wish to learn all i can 'bout the elven tongue and really get into conversations. can ye help? send me an email if ye can.:)...
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?
thestyl@...
Dec 9, 1998 10:35 pm
Hello again. I guess I need to say that i need to tell you more of who I am. My Name is Ddectíl.(or thestyl for those who speak comman). I have a page I am...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 9, 1998 10:35 pm
John Garth wrote: Concerning the names Anaxartaron Onyalie/Anaxartamel/Of the Ents and the Eagles ... [ASCII is way underequipped to deal with the symbols...
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Matijas//fia noamale ...
hiasl@...
Dec 9, 1998 10:35 pm
... First Unicode isn't like Unicode there are various differnt encoding forms of it like UTF-8 , UTF-7 and a 16 bit code which uses Java and Word for Windows...
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B. Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Dec 10, 1998 8:06 pm
ho de David Salo egraphe: [snip] ... I would rather NOT consider the Quesseteema consonants "double": they are plainly to be considered single labiovelar or...
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B. Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Dec 10, 1998 8:06 pm
... ^^^ This should have been _h_, of course X-( Both Danish and Swedish replaced _dh_ by _d_ in all cases, and nothing else! /BP ... See the original message...
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Stephen Rowland
Stephen_Rowland@...
Dec 10, 1998 8:06 pm
... [...] ... Hm. How about _Anaxartaron Onyalie_ = "Synopsis for _The Lord of the Rings_"? -- | "Of this two things are said,...
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BP.Jonsson
bpj@...
Dec 10, 1998 8:06 pm
I just (re)discovered that Albanian has {dh} for voiced dental fricative. I doubt that influenced JRRT either way, although he may have known about it. A more...
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John Garth
john_garth@...
Dec 11, 1998 1:45 pm
David Salo rightly corrects me on a number of points, notably my failure to consider syncope, to remember Auleonnar in PM and to see that Anaxartaron would not...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 17, 1998 12:08 am
... I am basing my interpretation on the following information: In Appendix E, Tolkien wrote: "H standing alone with no other consonant has the sound of h in...
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jcb@...
Dec 17, 1998 4:27 pm
... I think you are both right and wrong here. I agree that three recognizable phones [h] [x] [ç] are involved; but I would expect medial [x] and [ç] to be...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 17, 1998 4:27 pm
Andreas Johansson recently called to my attention what must be an error in Tolkien's discussion of the etymology of the element _aika_, _aeg_. In PM:347,...
