This is my first message to this Group, and a test. Hullo everybody! How are you? Do you copy right!? ;-) Ed ...
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Marcus Smith
emptysmith@...
Sep 9, 1998 8:29 pm
This is my first message, so I would like to introduce myself. My name is Marcus Smith, and I live in the United States, in California. I am a junior in...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Sep 9, 1998 8:53 pm
... Welcome, Marcus! Nice introduction. I should probably introduce myself as well, since I'm a complete unknown. I am a Ph.D student at the University of...
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Kimmo Valtonen
kvaltone@...
Sep 10, 1998 11:54 am
Hello to all. As I was invited to introduce myself, here goes: I am Finnish, and work/study at the Computer Science department of the University of Helsinki....
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 10, 1998 11:54 am
Hello, my name is David Salo. I'm 29 years old, and I've been fascinated by Tolkien's languages since I was 10, at least -- so for nearly 20 years. I've only...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 10, 1998 11:54 am
(The following is based in part on discussions with Philip Jonsson) For a long time, from its inception down to a point about half-way or further through the...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Sep 10, 1998 12:31 pm
A couple of things I thought you might want to know: 1) I apologize for the ads at the bottom of posts. They should be going away soon (as soon as Findmail...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Sep 11, 1998 2:04 am
Well, someone has to ask the stupid questions -- might as well be me... First of all, is it possible to establish within any tolerance at all the external...
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B.Philip.Jonsson
bpj@...
Sep 12, 1998 11:41 pm
... I guess this is my cue to appear officially on Elfling, so here goes my rather unimpressive vita brevis: My name is B. Philip Jonnson (not to be confused...
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B.Philip.Jonsson
bpj@...
Sep 12, 1998 11:41 pm
The Quenya inventory of consonant phonemes may, based on Tolkien's Roman Quenya "orthography", the Feanorian Tengwar orthography and Eldarin comparative...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 12, 1998 11:42 pm
... I'm not sure. I don't think all the changes were made at exactly the same time, but at different times in the '40s. Tolkien was finishing the text in...
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Julie Lim
wombat1138@...
Sep 14, 1998 11:16 pm
Hello, everyone-- I'll probably just lurk most of the time. I used to be on TolkLang a long time ago, but eventually unsubscribed and've been tracking the list...
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McBriety, Lisa
MCBRIETL@...
Sep 14, 1998 11:17 pm
**well, let's see if I can post on here. I've alphabetized the list of verbs that Chris Gilson is arguing about on the TolkLang list. He says they show a...
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B.Philip.Jonsson
bpj@...
Sep 14, 1998 11:16 pm
... ^^^^^^^ I must have been reeeeal tired yesterday evening to misspell my own surname! It is Jonsson, and nothing else. B-/ Better play it safe and call me...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 15, 1998 1:54 am
... [...cut...] ... But since we know that we do have the roots ROO and RUS(UK) or we wouldn't have in Quenya, roomen "east" but hroomen, and not rusco "fox"...
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Marcus Smith
emptysmith@...
Sep 15, 1998 11:58 am
David Salo wrote: [snip] ... There may be some validity to the S- prefix. In Appendix D of LotR the words Q. hriive and S. rhi^w are given for "winter"....
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 15, 1998 11:03 pm
... alphabet (A-K), whereas those that end in -ir (or in one case -ar) are in the second part of the alphabet (L-W). Tolkien changed his mind on the form of...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 16, 1998 2:49 am
What I am calling "Late Old Quenya" is documented only in a few places, the most important of which is four poems of c. 1930 from the essay "A Secret Vice",...
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Marcus Smith
emptysmith@...
Sep 16, 1998 12:00 pm
Well, Lisa and Helge, you beat me to an interpretation. Here is my conclusion anyway since it gives a more full account of the data and disagrees with a part...
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Anthony Poole
Anthony.Poole@...
Sep 16, 1998 12:00 pm
Hi, I was just wondering whether these posting are going to be archived somewhere since I sometimes miss postings and have to do a lot of catching up. Regards,...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Sep 16, 1998 2:04 pm
... Normally I'd handle something like this personally, but the list is so new that I thought lots of people might like to know. Yes, Elfling is archived. If...
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da Hiasl
hiasl@...
Sep 17, 1998 10:12 pm
This is about the importance of a common basic vocabulary , which is necessary for an effective learning and understanding of any vital language . This means...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Sep 18, 1998 10:17 pm
... the ... In fact there is a word _Golodhrin_ in the second Tree of Tongues of the Lhammas and Ancient Golodhrin as ancestor to the two living "Nolodorin" ...
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David Hintz
elvish@...
Sep 18, 1998 10:44 pm
Hello, Just wanted to say Hi. I'm David Hintz from Oregon (a.k.a. Seric Silverleaf) I joined this list so I could get some good things to forward to my Elven...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Sep 20, 1998 3:04 pm
At last, after many years of (impatient) waiting we can start to see (and read) Tolkien's own phonological studies on Q(u)enya. His first (preserved) attempt...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Sep 20, 1998 5:44 pm
... Based on what? On the frequency of such words in Tolkien's own writings? That will end up rather skewed, I expect, although it might manage to be skewed in...
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da Hiasl
hiasl@...
Sep 20, 1998 11:53 pm
... What's so weird about this . It's a part of good linguistic and historic linguistic research to find processes which are more productiv than other and...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Sep 21, 1998 10:22 pm
... I was just about to propose to create such an Academia. That is *if* the project of the Modern/Living Elvish (Coirea Quenya) is to become real. I think...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 22, 1998 5:18 pm
... What about the contrast of huan "hound" and hwan "fungus"? Here there appears to be a distinction between hw and h+u+vowel with a supporting minimal pair....
