... I thought it was written in Latin, wasn't it? I only heard to refer to it under its Latin title, whereas Hus' works written in Czech have their Czech...
2891
Haplo
Haplo@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:11 pm
Hello to everybody, I'm a Spanish boy who don't talk English too well, but I understand almost everything I read. :-) A friend of mine, Ozelin, told me about...
2892
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:17 pm
Well, I am not too well informed about the activities of Yahoo, so I cant judge what the danger is. However, if there shall be agreement that Elfling should ...
2893
Irene A Gates
112321.3163@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:17 pm
BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote ... 'syllabic-accentual' ... it. I've seen it done, too. That's why I said "JRRT's Q and S poetry". Also, I have a vague feeling...
2894
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:17 pm
... A few comments: Fast: is specifically tangled, shaggy hair; _find_ is a bit more general din: I'd use diin (with lengthened vowel) fuindaur: why reverse...
2895
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:17 pm
... u-gernim: if this is based on "gar", then being lenited after u- it should be 'ernim nestad: I would used the true infinitive (rather than gerund) form,...
2896
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:17 pm
... Well, Sindarin has _gwaloth_, so olootie seems to match that nicely. Lootesse is already in existence as the Sindarin name of May. I was thinking of such...
2897
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:17 pm
... Perhaps mostly re: the small amount I know about either language. :) So here it is: Ai! Laurije tantar lassi suhinen, jieni uunuottime pe raamar kaltaron!...
2898
Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:58 pm
... I feel highly concerned by this issue, as I have experienced further problems with Yahoo even after the intellectual property claim was withdrawn from...
2899
Daniel M. Laenker
dmlaenker@...
Jul 3, 2000 10:20 pm
... I'd imagine that _parmatir_ is also equally likely to be "accountant" if pushed into modern context. Or, possibly, even (*shudder*) "auditor" ... Well, if...
2900
Vicentini Emanuele
vicentin@...
Jul 3, 2000 10:21 pm
Greetings, Last night, instead of sleeping, I was wondering why some Quenya words have a "strange" plural form: _urco_ --> _urqui_, _telco_ --> _telqui_... ...
2901
David kiltz
kiltzd@...
Jul 4, 2000 4:28 pm
Vicentini Emanuele schrieb am Ò[elfling] Why _urco_ has the plural _urqui_?Ó. [2000/07/03 08:43] ... Hello , yes, I think what you say is right, the o/ui...
2902
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jul 4, 2000 4:28 pm
... Well, my lady's brother (a native Fennophone) put it as "Finnish or Estonian with a Russian accent" when I showed it to him at the time you sent it to me....
2903
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jul 5, 2000 11:42 pm
Hello, Just a question: Has the "Kynjä translation" of Namaarie some sense in Finnish? Or it is just a demonstration how little fonetical changes are needed...
2904
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jul 5, 2000 11:42 pm
... Icelandic did, but nowadays the old long vowels have turned into diphthongs (so for example /a:/, written "á", has become /au/, but still spelt the same ...
2905
Tim Gades
green@...
Jul 5, 2000 11:42 pm
A while back (November) I posted the first page of a short quenya story to the net. It has now been joined by its pals, pages 2, 3, and 4, at the following...
2906
Stephen Rowland
Stephen_Rowland@...
Jul 5, 2000 11:42 pm
... So did Tolkien -- in the poem _Earendel_ (in the essay "A Secret Vice", _The Monsters and the Critics_ p. 216). - - u u - u - u x San ninqeruvisse...
2907
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 5, 2000 11:42 pm
Here is something from http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,222224a2202,FF.html Hollywood star Cate Blanchett found one thing tough while in Wellington ...
2908
Tandra Chu
lindril@...
Jul 6, 2000 1:00 am
... *snip* ... Here's something from an E!Online article, found at http://www.eonline.com/Features/Specials/Lordrings/Word/000701.html *** Dialect coaches and...
2909
Juho Pahajoki
pahis@...
Jul 6, 2000 8:26 pm
Márë arilli (arineli) - hyviä huomenia // can I use ll insted of eli? I just wanted to introduce myself and ask some questions, since I just joined this...
2910
Haplo
Haplo@...
Jul 6, 2000 8:26 pm
Hello again. I read Helge's article "Now we have all got elvish names", and I decided that I wanted to try too. My real name is Fidel (yes, like Castro), and I...
2911
Mike Perkins
mnp109@...
Jul 6, 2000 10:25 pm
Hi, I'll introduce myslef since I'm new arounf here. I'm Mike from the US, and just decided to start learning quenya. I've already gathere a lot of online...
2912
Patrick Norton
jediknightpatrick5@...
Jul 6, 2000 10:26 pm
I would like to ask for some help with the translation of this poem that I made. One Talon of The Eagle is pure; the others are of steel. One gift of The Eagle...
2913
Haplo
Haplo@...
Jul 8, 2000 2:15 am
... Hello, I'm Spanish and I can give thanks to God that the quenya pronunciation is VERY similar to the Spanish one. ;-) In the FAQ of this list you can found...
2914
Cirk Bejnar
eluchil@...
Jul 8, 2000 2:15 am
... On the web the only site I know of is http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/pronguide.html . It has both extensive theory and some .wav sounds. As...
2915
Cirk Bejnar
eluchil@...
Jul 8, 2000 2:15 am
Someone recently asked what the Sindarin word for "gift" was. The Etymologies and Didier Wilis' excellent online Dictionary give 'ant'. Later i was told that...
2916
Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Jul 8, 2000 2:15 am
... Where did you find the vocabulary? I am afraid that most of the words differ from the words attested in Tolkien's books. "One" is _min_ in Sindarin...
2917
Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Jul 8, 2000 2:15 am
Hello, and welcome! ... "Good mornings"? Why not simply a singular? I suggest Almaarea arin "blessed morning" (maara is "for things" only, theorically). ... ...
2918
John Rateliff
sacnoth@...
Jul 8, 2000 2:15 am
Here's an odd topic I've been thinking on lately. Martin Bernal, in his controversial book BLACK ATHENA (Vol I, 1987), points out that roughly 50% to 60% of...
2919
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 8, 2000 3:38 pm
... I hope I did not say this, because I do not believe it; I know of no reason why *antoo > *antho > ant "gift" should be excluded from Sindarin. I may have...
