... <<<<Since you are quoting from my mail, I'd like to stress for the record that nowhere in any of my posts on this topic did I claim or even hint that I...
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aelindis
Aug 29, 2005 2:25 pm
... I have searched "insultings" on google and the first result was the website >afghanmania.com< where the "admin" wrote (09.11.2003): "Postings wich contains...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 29, 2005 1:46 pm
... Okay, I would like a native English speaker confirm to me that 'calculatings', 'actings', 'insultings' and so on are indeed grammatical. I don't believe in...
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Beregond, Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Aug 29, 2005 1:39 pm
... I can construct such a context. And others have done so: go to www.google.com and search for "calculatings". I think it is relatively rare partly because...
32192
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 29, 2005 12:58 pm
... Sorry, my mistake! You're entirely right, my example is pointless here. The replacement doesn't seem to work with _your doing well_ though - that is...
32191
aelindis
Aug 29, 2005 12:16 pm
After due consideration it appears to me that those who regard Sindarin plurals of verbal nouns as very probable act on the assumption that English and...
32190
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Aug 29, 2005 10:49 am
... poica. ... etc.): _Nai almare coa sino coluva alasse ar lar ilyannar i mittar as poice oorer_. "With the heart pure" - well, _as_ may mean primarily...
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hisilome
Aug 29, 2005 4:55 am
... speak of "-ing forms in noun/verb position" when the terms "(verbal) ... a 'verbal gerund' means to me the same as 'gerund in verb position', I had to...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 29, 2005 12:55 am
... Thus spoke quildarener, and yet in the same post, we find the classical ... The conversation occurs all too often along these lines: A: "I believe this...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 29, 2005 12:35 am
... I don't understand what you're trying to say here or what it would be based on. What I understand is that we actually know the mechanism for ...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Aug 28, 2005 4:55 pm
... I understand your point. Words don't exist in a vacuum, they each have a story rooted in history. This was very important to Tolkien and is in fact a part...
32185
"Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond
Aug 28, 2005 4:44 pm
... A better way of saying it may be this: the plural of any _V-ing_ is _V-ings_. With some V-s you will seldom or never find any good use for the plural form,...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Aug 28, 2005 3:34 pm
... Well, since there is no _g_ in Quenya you have to change it into something similar (_c, ng, h, y_ or _w_). I choose _h_ since there is alternation between...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Aug 28, 2005 3:00 pm
... 'little wolf' is |rácince*| or |narmince*|. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se ...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 28, 2005 2:03 pm
Just a few brief answers. ... Because I have no formal training in grammar besides school, so a 'verbal gerund' means to me the same as 'gerund in verb...
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hisilome
Aug 28, 2005 7:14 am
... lack ... its ... (among ... in the ... a ... position in ... in 'verb' ... call ... ta_ is ... <<I've followed this whole discussion with interest, but I...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Aug 28, 2005 2:33 am
bonjour Quenay Lapseparma translates Frederic as Seeretur.. in Sindarin it would be ehm... Idharan or Idhgon... what do you think? ... [...]...
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rainalcar
Aug 28, 2005 2:32 am
I would appreciate your advice how to translate the following line in quenya: Summary of quenya grammar from the Third age of ME My attempt: Sintanyarie quenya...
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rainalcar
Aug 28, 2005 2:31 am
... From: "Melroch 'Aestan" <melroch@...> To: <elfling@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [elfling] Re: Quenyanizing...
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rainalcar
Aug 28, 2005 2:31 am
Precisely for the reasons named above (the meaning and forms of many names being lost, distorted, misunderstood, etc.) I differ with the usual procedure in...
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rainalcar
Aug 28, 2005 2:30 am
On quenyanizing, I was generally thinking how would the elves write these names if they heard a today's speaker pronouncing it, without knowing their meanings....
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 28, 2005 12:33 am
... I assumed this to be rather obvious, but I am not representing anyone in this discussion but myself. I would think that there is no homogeneous block of...
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"Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond
Aug 28, 2005 12:02 am
... That might happen. Gildir, Per Lindberg, has several times told us in the Mellonath Daeron that studies show that email discussions are good for getting a...
32173
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 27, 2005 9:06 pm
... So we're down to semantics...At some point it probably stops being the language - I refuse to accept _Lye duraser naa i'Meneldalie, tanya n'eldelie, imya...
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elhath *
elenyona
Aug 27, 2005 9:06 pm
... Based on _ardh+calen_ > Ard-galen (Silm.), David Salo hypothesizes that "-dh became the stop -d before nonnasal stops" (Gateway 184, 179). I guess that ...
32171
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 27, 2005 8:31 pm
It just might happen that we have to agree that we disagree. At least I feel I understand the problem now a good deal better. I think we agree that the...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Aug 27, 2005 7:39 pm
... Certainly you mean Old High German? In any case _rihhi_ is OHG. ... "Peace-lord" would probably be Sidhgon* in Sindarin. It depends a bit on how the...
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Bobo Williams
adanvae
Aug 27, 2005 7:33 pm
Thanks! that was back before i knew about elfling, so i'll look....
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Aug 27, 2005 7:32 pm
quildarener skrev: Cagalj might be ... Rather Tyahalyo* or Tyaalyo*, since _C_ is "tsh" in the original. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at...
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Bill Welden
williamwelden
Aug 27, 2005 5:51 pm
William, I appreciate your taking the time to reply to my post in detail. This is a subject that is close to my heart, and I've never really expressed myself...
