Aiya! Saturday, June 1, 2002, 6:33:07 AM, iiipitaka wrote: <...> ... i> It's an attempt at Adűnaic, what can be done with the limited data i> anyway. Well, to...
Aiya! Saturday, June 1, 2002, 7:07:14 AM, iiipitaka wrote: i> The question, as I recall, was whether "curwe" could translate i> "craft" in the sense of "the...
... "Wicked" has the same root, indeed, it's derived from wicce. The etymology of these words shows that etymology isn't all, and the actual usage (semantic...
Aiya! I have decided to stop subscribing all of the Elvish mail lists, at least for the summer. I will be living in my summer cottage through extended periods,...
Aiya! ... GI> * wicca reminds me of wicked :) GI> but anyway, i think the persons acquained with wicca GI> know its etymology better I doubt it. _Linguists_...
Aiya! Saturday, June 1, 2002, 3:01:29 PM, Petri Tikka wrote: PT> As a farewell note, I present a translation of Einsten's PT> quote: PT> "Lá sanan i...
Hello, ... Wrong. What about the Sapir-Whorf theory? The culture tends to avoid concepts for which there is no word in the language. Thus, we can say that the...
Aiya!! Harumph. Okay, this is way too one-sided. Yes, you're right. Those are all roots of Wicca.... however they are not the roots that modern Wiccans...
... From: "Boris Shapiro" <elenhil@...> To: "Petri Tikka" <elfling@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [elfling]...
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Ben Hamill
rudie04@...
Jun 1, 2002 4:16 pm
... I agree. In fact I think the whole moral issue brought up by Carl is rather moot in this case. Making a Quenya word for Wicca is like making a Latin word...
On 6/1/02 1:20 AM, "NiennaSorrowing@..." <NiennaSorrowing@...> ... Well, the only way to be _certain_ that we won't be able to reach any conclusions or...
... The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is not well-regarded by linguists today. Languages are not limited in the concepts they can express by the vocabulary they have...
teithant Ben Hamill ... *which is *televisio -nis :) the anglo-french word is an yhypothetical descedant ofthis hypothetical latin word... not to mention that...
... it is most in doubt!
> A distinction
> that very clearly carries a moral component. And one that could very well= ... hardly unique to the Eldar....
Hello, ... Just nitpicking... To quote from your own message to ElfLing of Jan 23, 2002: <<But linguistics is not about some Authority telling you what X ...
... applies to ... No, it doesn't (nor is it a fact), and it is off-topic. It has, as you can tell, ceased to have any linguistic content at all. It should...
... Actually, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been pretty thoroughly discredited. And I personally disagree with it in any event. I think it puts the situation...
... I would like to note, lest I leave a wrong impression, that I don't think the Elves would view Wicca as a whole as _entirely_ errant. Tolkien recognized...
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Ben Hamill
rudie04@...
Jun 1, 2002 5:04 pm
... True. See the invention of the "horseless carriage" ie. Car... ->Ben<- ... "No, Donnie, these men are cowards." The Big Lebowsky Post Script: Is that the...
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Ben Hamill
rudie04@...
Jun 1, 2002 5:04 pm
... Stupid me. I forgot: Even thought Italians don't speak Latin any more... Greeks still speak Greek. Its not a dead language. Of /course/ there are words for...
Hello, ... As a matter of fact, the statement that language shapes perception is a misinterpretation widely used to discredit the theory. Neither Sapir nor ...
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... Excellent. :) ... It does? Can't speakers of a single language have many, diverse philosophies and religions? That's certainly true of English. English...
Aiya! Saturday, June 1, 2002, 7:44:30 PM, Petri Tikka wrote: PT>> As a farewell note, I present a translation of Einsten's quote: PT>> "Lá sanan i apalúmeo....
David, it's good you are back here among us :) I have heard that the Nazgul scene had an Adunaic vocal background but I thought it sounded more like Black...
... I've *never* heard that. The two major contentions I've hear are that it comes from PIE *weik, "to bend, twist, or shape" (i.e., "one who bends reality to...
i should post it in Elfscript.. i will do, but here it would be read by more and more serious people :) Lisa Star has a page about Gondolindic Runes, and her ...
