Aiya! With the permission of the author, I have posted a new version of Andreas Andreou's essay "Quenya: The Influence of the Greek Language" on my website Men...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jul 2, 2005 10:15 am
... No, it is pronounced as one consonant: "Adunaic, like Avallonian [Quenya], does not tolerate more than a single basic consonant initially in any word"...
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Saruman El Blanco
ilustrado
Jul 2, 2005 4:03 pm
Melin Rainalcar, l, n, r, m, h and t + y = palatalized sound, like in the Slavic languages. Then ly = Italian gli, ny = French gn, hy = German ch (after i,...
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kothz
Jul 2, 2005 4:04 pm
Greetings, all... I am in the process of translating the sacreligious mantra of Yogi Bear, "Smarter than the average bear", into Sindarin. The beginnings of...
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elhath *
elenyona
Jul 2, 2005 7:04 pm
... Could *_ened-dalathren_ or *_enedbathui_ mean 'of middle-level > average'? ... The root STAN (which yielded Quenya _sanya_) came to stand for 'be real, ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 2, 2005 9:26 pm
Thorsten Renk wrote, referring to past-tense verbs in Noldorin as appearing ... verb system, but it seems there is still a good measure of confusion around -...
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rainalcar
Jul 3, 2005 11:32 pm
Melin Saruman, thanks for the reply, just to clarify something: are you sure that the letter r in Dvorak represents ry in quenya? Becuase, in czech ...
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rainalcar
Jul 3, 2005 11:33 pm
Thanks Petri Tikka...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 3, 2005 11:44 pm
I would like to thank Helge for the reply - it was indeed quite helpful to ... they are indeed incorporated into David's "Gateway"? I am referring to a larger...
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kothz
Jul 3, 2005 11:52 pm
... [...massive redundant quote snipped, mod...] ... _no_)? ... _hann, ... Many thanks to Elhath for the invaluable advice. After reading through the Sindarin...
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calwen76
Jul 4, 2005 6:56 am
... Well, I suppose you forgot to mention the r before the ž - it is usually presented as _rzh_ in English. So the pronunciation could be expressed as...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Jul 4, 2005 7:00 am
... It seems some correction is necessary here. First, "ř" (r hacek) is not pronounced like "ž" in Croatian, but by little children :-) (both ř and ž exist...
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Saruman El Blanco
ilustrado
Jul 4, 2005 4:16 pm
... From: rainalcar [...] are you sure that the letter r in Dvorak represents ry in quenya? Becuase, in czech pronunciation, Dvorak is pronounced with the...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Jul 4, 2005 5:59 pm
... This is indeed a very poor approximation... "rZ" and "r hacek" ("ř") are different phonemes in Czech (rather, a phoneme and a cluster of 2 phonemes),...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 5, 2005 1:40 pm
Regarding my previous remarks about trisyllabic verbs and the mixed conjugation: I assume what I have written can still be misinterpreted, as some of my ...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 6, 2005 7:08 pm
Aiya, I don't quite manage the update schedule I would like to, but I finally got around to go over my Quenya course with a few revisions. It can be found on...
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Dave
hisilome
Jul 7, 2005 1:40 pm
First of all: Many thanks for the revisions! Just one small question: In the added section 20.2.3 (p.129) you give the example sentence _Aa mara oonisse!_ ...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jul 7, 2005 3:30 pm
... This nonsense Qenya - it just suddenly appeared from the depths of my immagination, of having been exposed to Q(u)enya for so long. It reflects a certain...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 7, 2005 7:24 pm
... Indeed, it seems I have been sleeping again - my mistake, thanks for the pointer. I'll correct it in the file. * Thorsten...
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DiegoSeguí
tirachinas
Jul 7, 2005 7:36 pm
... depths of my immagination, of having been exposed to Q(u)enya for so long. Now, it might be interesting to note some phonological traits, which would shed...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Jul 7, 2005 8:32 pm
... The famous linguist Roman Jakobson claimed that consonant clusters like _ld, rd, ldr, ndr_ are favored by glossolalia and children's nonsense talk....
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jul 8, 2005 10:29 am
... Of course, you are referring here to Tolkien's poem "Mythopoeia": "...these each are duly registered and print / the brain's contortions with a separate...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 9, 2005 12:59 pm
Suil! While reading up verbs, I recently stumbled across an interesting article 'The Many Ways of Intensifying Words in Sindarin' on the Council of Elrond ...
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julia_rose_us
Jul 11, 2005 7:17 am
Well, I started studying Quenya again, and after taking a couple years of Spanish at college, and practicing Japanese on my own. I have come across some...
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Andrannath Mirdaneg
andrannath
Jul 11, 2005 3:41 pm
... [...] ... From what I know, it's like Latin (one syllable accented). In small words (1-2 syllables) it's the first one, of course. But in bigger words,...
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ethuilbereth@...
Jul 13, 2005 4:31 am
Hello all! All of these questions about stress and pronunciation have gotten me thinking. Quoting Appendix E on Stress: "In longer words it falls on the last...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jul 13, 2005 6:55 pm
Yes, nd, mb, mp and the like, are considered double consonants....
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calwen76
Jul 14, 2005 10:45 am
... [...] ... In Appendix E, there is also written (in the very end of the part Consonants) [in my own words]: in Sindarin, _ng, nd, mb_ changed, _mb_ became...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jul 14, 2005 9:00 pm
Mae govannen, mellyn nín phain! I composed this Sindarin poem a long time ago (May 2002). For some reason I have never posted it here. But I do like it, so...
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hisilome
Jul 15, 2005 5:02 am
... [--because otherwise "the stress might be in doubt"!] _Nd_ often became _nn_, mainly when standing ... to- ... [What about _galadhremmin_? Tolkien clearly...
