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25203 Jerome Colburn
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Jun 1, 2003
8:27 am
... So here's the new material in each line: GAKH: three -I: plural nominative ending GOLUG: Elf, especially a Noldo DURUB: king, related to DURB- "bind"? ...
25204 A.W.T.
aolung Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
11:54 am
... Sign languages have nothing to do with the languages spoken in the country respectively, e.g. "German" sign language has nothing to to with German grammar!...
25205 lierontaure Send Email Jun 1, 2003
1:18 pm
Hello everyone, this is my first time posting here, so I'm so sorry if I'm not doing something right. I am part of a forum where somehow I have been labeled an...
25206 amanibhavam
percival64 Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
2:19 pm
... Aiya, welcome and all. Personally I've never heard of ulava. If I want to follow your line of thought, I'd render it as _Avá lerta estel sintien. Mornie...
25207 Kirsten Eivor Bekkhus
eivor_3 Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
3:30 pm
From: "amanibhavam&quot; <percival64@...> ... If any case at all, maybe dative, cf. _Estelio ammen_ (D.Salo, movie). Locative here seems very abstract, is...
25208 pip_s2003 Send Email Jun 1, 2003
3:30 pm
Hello, I'm trying to translate my personal motto into Sindarin. It's 'From others nothing, from myself nothing less' (in Latin I put it as 'nil de aliis...
25209 amanibhavam
percival64 Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
3:55 pm
... Oh yes, in Hungarian:-) _Bízz bennem._ "Trust in me." but _Higgy nekem_(dative) "Believe me." _Higgy bennem_ (locative) "Believe in me." Shine on, ... ...
25210 A.W.T.
aolung Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
4:35 pm
... German: Glaube mir (dative), vertraue mir (dative) Habe Vertrauen _in_ mich! (locative acc.) Glaube _an_ Gott! (locative acc.) Suil, Edhil...
25211 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
5:12 pm
... Maybe something like _O edwin unad, o im unad (na) eiphigen_? Comparative adverb should make a nice discussion... in addition to the vague enough...
25212 Sandrine
eowynhime Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
6:19 pm
Hi all ! What's the better way to say in Sindarin "A light of Hope" ? Calad ned Estel or Calad en Estel ? Thanks ! Sandrine....
25213 iridium_delta Send Email Jun 1, 2003
6:20 pm
Here are the (hopefully final) modifications to the writing i posted a while earlier: Through lands of fire and water Under leaves of trees Beyond the mountain...
25214 Wei Wu Wei
aranelle_cui... Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
6:22 pm
... Whoa, whoa, whoa. I believe you're taking a bit of poetic license with the translation of this one, eh? Definitely not the word-for-word, which IMHO...
25215 Aranelle E Labigni
enee_b@... Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
6:24 pm
Hello Arodeth; I worked a lot on that poem. I read your work and I found some words very interresting. I think that some words do not exist. I search in...
25216 amanibhavam
percival64 Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
6:42 pm
... No, it isn't. Do you want land in singular and fire/water in plural? Then it is _nóre nárion ar nenion_. Do you want it the other way round? Then it is...
25217 Mark
astaldil Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
7:16 pm
... with ... in ... the ... Well, it's only crazy if you think the Good Professor was. It's the English translation by JRRT given in RGEO. ... O Elbereth...
25218 Mornon
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Jun 1, 2003
7:39 pm
From: "amanibhavam&quot; <percival64@...> ... Yes, I agree; both meaning "made of" and "characterized by" are covered by adjectival. I think genitive could...
25219 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jun 1, 2003
8:32 pm
teithant Sandrine ... the first would mean 'light in hope' and the other 'ligh of the hope' one more try :) ...
25220 K. R. Harris
aawid_hnec Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
1:23 am
Greetings, I had written last week regarding the correct pronunciation of Quenya, specifically the short vowel 'a'. Kai was kind enough to point out Julian ...
25221 Donna Mair
lotr_osgiliath Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
1:38 am
Untitled Stationerygreetings, i am trying to translate the following sentence into sindarin: 'fun to be bad' I am trying to find another word in english for...
25222 DDanielA@...
uialdil Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
1:44 am
... Simple genitive needs no preposition. _Calad Estel_ = 'light of Hope'. _en_ = 'of the'. We're not exactly sure what _ned_ means ... possibly something like...
25223 Steve
iridium_delta Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
5:12 am
This is beginning to make a bit more sense now. But, if the adjectival form of "fire" (nar) is 'narwa&#39; wouldnt the same apply for "water" (nen) to become...
25224 aranelle_cuilsador
aranelle_cui... Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
5:12 am
... Aha! I see now! The "what it's pretty much saying" translation. Right on! Just didn't want to see anyone confused (more than I am, apparently!) Aranelle...
25225 Steve
iridium_delta Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
5:13 am
Made a change to the last line so it reads as it shows below, rather than "Estelio melmë; sina ná ú i tyeldë". The way it reads now seems more correct, i...
25226 amanibhavam
percival64 Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
6:20 am
... Yes, you are right. Shine on, ===== Thomas Ferencz "Gwannathon, gwannathon, an thé anann gwannon, od ast e-dé anann goll echedithon." ...
25227 amanibhavam
percival64 Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
6:31 am
... _Avane_ is past tense of the verb _ava-_ "refuse" which is "little used in ordinary language". If I were you I'd use _váquet-_ "refuse": Aváquete. Or...
25228 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
7:31 am
teithant "K. R. Harris" ... if you mean the 'accent&#39; which makes Italian musical and gesturating, and Spanish fast and hard (and differientates American...
25229 Mornon
lucaemauro@... Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
12:19 pm
Only a question, excuse me if I put up the topic again: why Carl Hostetter was been banned? I didn't know this... Mornon....
25230 Jerry Aurand(Fillan)
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Jun 2, 2003
2:43 pm
"Quenya sign language would be very interesting. I would imagine it would be quite difficult, though, with cases and suffixes and the like." SLs (as opposed...
25231 Vendis
veendis Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
3:55 pm
... Habe Vertrauen _in_ mich! (locative acc.) Glaube _an_ Gott! (locative acc.) Polish: (u)wierz mi (Dat; believe me), (u)wierz we mnie ("in" + Acc; believe in...
25232 Vendis
veendis Send Email
Jun 2, 2003
3:56 pm
... follow your line of thought, I'd render it as _Avá lerta estel sintien. Mornie lantuva, arin tuluva. Á ista tuolya, á estelya Ilúvatar._ I thought...
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