... Yes, I understood that when I read the various replies. The problem is perhaps a lgc one: in Swedish we say _namnbok_, without reference to babies. Also...
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Shihali Ramichu
ramichu@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
... For special circumstances, yes. How is one supposed to publish news in Quenya, for instance, without Quenya versions of the names? Affix case endings...
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Shihali Ramichu
ramichu@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
I am writing a little poem in Quenya, and I found that I need a word for "to protest". It could be formed by "complaint-say", but there's no word for...
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Ïàâåë È...
pavel_iosad@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
Greg Dyke wrote ... Yeah. Remember the word for the Druuedain : druug. In Russian there's a word "drug", meaning friend... Regards Pavel...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
... I agree that the discussion finds no place on Elfling, however I don't think that's what he meant. The crme de la crme of tolkiendilis is to be found ...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
Perhaps we could make a new mailling list, with only messages ... Great minds think alike: quenya@egroups.com already exists Greg ...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
May 4, 2000 7:33 pm
... IMO he didn't care about it. Some words look like borrowings from other languages, e.g. Q. _tuula-_ and Finnish _tulla_ "to come" or _loiko_ "corpse" wich...
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Mister Gang
m.gang@...
May 4, 2000 7:33 pm
Hi Elflingers !!! This message is for french speaking people : You can visit my translation of Helge Fauskanger's Ardalambion (at least a little part of it) at...
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S. SinClaire
lynsin357@...
May 4, 2000 7:34 pm
Anthony Burgess used lots of Russian words in "A Clockwork Orange" and "droog" spelt that way-was a slang for "friend". Sin ... From: ...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 4, 2000 7:36 pm
... Net- is in the etymologies, HoME 5 ... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN...
2621
LAICOLAS
laicalasse@...
May 4, 2000 7:36 pm
Since I didn't received any one single comment from the schoolars about this issue, I post it back, leaving it to the hope that one joyfull wind may bring it...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 4, 2000 7:37 pm
From time to time, people send actual Elvish texts to Elfling to have them reviewed. Often there is some fumbling introduction along the lines of "this is my...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 4, 2000 7:38 pm
... I think an uvular r is the one you often get in German or french (or are they different. what is apical r? Take bergen: you could pronounce it like the...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 4, 2000 7:39 pm
... "to protest". It could be formed by "complaint-say", but there's no word for "complaint" either. Can anyone help with this? Perhaps _vquet-_ = "to say...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
May 5, 2000 8:50 pm
... You are welcome. But please keep in mind that when one reads ELFING, he/she does not always have all the books and dictionary at hand. As Helge wrote in a...
2626
Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 5, 2000 8:50 pm
... Sorry, it isn't, I thought I found it there but it must have been somewhere else Greg ... ...
2627
Maciej Zenczykowski
maze@...
May 5, 2000 8:50 pm
I have been trying to "decipher" Sindarin tengwar with tehta mode, I have access to LOTR, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. And to Dan Smiths fonts + help...
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John Rateliff
sacnoth@...
May 5, 2000 8:50 pm
The advice contained in Helge's post was good enough that I'd be happy to see it printed in TT or VT. I hope he'll also make it a permanent part of his...
2629
Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
May 5, 2000 8:51 pm
... That's true for compounds such as Elessar, but not necessarily for case endings. Things might be more complex. The locative ending is -(e)sse, and the ...
2630
pavel_iosad@...
May 5, 2000 8:51 pm
... Hi, I guess he should have known. Adunaic was designed to have a strong Semitic flavour, but the flavour couldn't be achieved if he didn't. ... Or in a...
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Ïàâåë È...
pavel_iosad@...
May 5, 2000 8:51 pm
Hi, one more from me It's but a coincidence, but looks quite amusing We know the Quenya _saira_ wise, don't we? Well, I know the Russian saira (stressed on the...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
May 5, 2000 9:26 pm
... I concur, so heartily that I am going to put a condensed version of Helge's post in the Elfling welcome message with a pointer to the full post in the...
2633
Ales Bican
bican@...
May 5, 2000 9:48 pm
Though I think that rendering real names, their meanings, into Quenya is a bit stupid, today I have finished the work on such the renderings. I have compiled...
2634
Ales Bican
bican@...
May 5, 2000 9:48 pm
... **I think it was resolved. : ) At least it was resolved like this: some (I guess the majority) would incline to *attested* usage while you would use...
2635
John Cowan
cowan@...
May 5, 2000 9:49 pm
... Based on this description, I volunteer to serve as backup moderator. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> ...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
May 5, 2000 10:25 pm
... Accepted with gratitude. Since John Cowan and I are in similar businesses, however, he will be taking a lot of the same business trips I do. Anyone else? ...
2637
Marcus Smith
smithma@...
May 7, 2000 10:37 pm
... I agree with John Cowan. Based on that description, I too am willing to help out. Marcus...
2638
Drauger
drauger@...
May 7, 2000 10:37 pm
Aiya! Yesterday I complete a translation of Helge K. Fauskanger's article about Khuzdul (without wordlist at this moment) and put it on my site "Tolkien's...
2639
Ryszard Derdzinski
maggot@...
May 7, 2000 10:37 pm
Answering Maciej Zenczykowski's message: ... As we read in Appendix E (The Return of the King) letter _F_ in the end of a word is always pronounced _V_ in...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 7, 2000 10:37 pm
... This is actually very simple. The word is pronounced /nev/ and is so spelt in Tengwar (and cirth too for that matter). But JRRT wanted to avoid final ...
