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...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil
Jun 1, 2002 8:10 am
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...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jun 1, 2002 9:02 am
teithant Boris Shapiro ... * wicca reminds me of wicked :) but anyway, i think the persons acquained with wicca know its etymology better ...
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gentlebeldin
Jun 1, 2002 10:51 am
... "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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jun 1, 2002 11:01 am
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,...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil
Jun 1, 2002 1:13 pm
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_...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil
Jun 1, 2002 1:13 pm
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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jun 1, 2002 2:16 pm
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...
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Daaniyah Halfelven
daaniyah_hal...
Jun 1, 2002 3:24 pm
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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jun 1, 2002 3:44 pm
... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 1, 2002 4:17 pm
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...
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iiipitaka
Jun 1, 2002 4:20 pm
... 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...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jun 1, 2002 4:35 pm
teithant Ben Hamill ... *which is *televisio -nis :) the anglo-french word is an yhypothetical descedant ofthis hypothetical latin word... not to mention that...
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iiipitaka
Jun 1, 2002 4:40 pm
... 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....
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jun 1, 2002 4:43 pm
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 ...
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iiipitaka
Jun 1, 2002 4:46 pm
... 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...
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iiipitaka
Jun 1, 2002 5:03 pm
... on')...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 1, 2002 5:03 pm
... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 1, 2002 5:04 pm
... 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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jun 1, 2002 5:12 pm
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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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jun 1, 2002 5:21 pm
================================================== Visit my website, men eldalambinen, for the kalevala translations, eldarin crosswords and compositions:...
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iiipitaka
Jun 1, 2002 5:24 pm
... Excellent. :) ... It does? Can't speakers of a single language have many, diverse philosophies and religions? That's certainly true of English. English...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil
Jun 1, 2002 5:36 pm
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....
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iiipitaka
Jun 1, 2002 5:47 pm
... are not Quenya patterns.
But fáreáve isn't like that; its stress patters are like Yáviére (name = of a day in the Numenorean calendar)....
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jun 1, 2002 6:12 pm
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...
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Kai MacTane
kmactane
Jun 1, 2002 7:08 pm
... 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...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jun 1, 2002 7:09 pm
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 ...
