... tyrhael_idhraen wrote: <Allow me to answer this anyway, not being Helge?> Of course, and thanks indeed for your reply and the much appreciated ...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Jun 28, 2007 10:15 pm
Matt Thanks for all your helpful comments - My attempt is not to create a neo-Sindarin translation of the Turin poem but to render in someway a poem that he...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jun 28, 2007 10:17 pm
... explore the ... circumstances ... exist ... material ... object? (But ... Are there ... verb is ... An earlier part of the paragraph reads (written by...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Jun 28, 2007 10:32 pm
Ok, I'm getting confused - just finished a first reading (and it will need many more) of the excellent VT 49. Based on what we know from Tolkien's papers what...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jun 28, 2007 11:07 pm
... render the Turin poem into the 1917 Goldogrin language that Tolkien developmed for the Gnomes of BOLT. May not be enought of a vocab to do (although there...
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finsen@...
ravenduongla...
Jun 29, 2007 12:08 am
Welcome and go for it! caio Graeme...
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Vicente Velasco
rashbold
Jun 29, 2007 12:09 am
... I would tend to agree with PW. I imagine _sin_ as a demonstrative pronoun, while _sina_ as a demonstrative adjective. The interpretation "thus" and "this...
34153
jesper@...
simplyanalogue
Jun 29, 2007 5:21 am
Hi List! Since it seems more or less a must to translate ones surname on this list I had a go with mine after re-reading all the ideas about the meaning of it ...
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iaminluvwithmusic56
iaminluvwith...
Jun 29, 2007 5:26 am
Thanx! I appreciate the warm welcome. ... had the ... reasons, ... it. I ... and...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jun 29, 2007 6:54 am
... Honestly, I doubt that the latter group would be included in an article on linguistics. Quite likely, the distinction will be more along the lines of those...
34156
Atwe
percival64
Jun 29, 2007 10:19 am
Hi, I would imagine a lenition might occur to the m there (cf. _Arvedui_), so maybe Garvir. Shine on, Atwe ... ...
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Cara Loup
caraloup
Jun 30, 2007 12:35 am
Thanks for the additional information, Matt! ... tyrhael_idhraen wrote: <An earlier part of the paragraph reads (written by Tolkien): "SAB 'believe (that...
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Keith Boots
funnelweb2020
Jun 30, 2007 12:35 am
Can someone help me create my first name in Elvish? Cheers. Keith. ... Yahoo!7 Mail has just got even bigger and better with unlimited storage on all webmail...
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Isaac W Hanson
isaacwhanson@...
Jun 30, 2007 12:06 pm
Hell, why not. I am bored. Keith means "Woods" or "Forest, of Scottish and Gaelic origin. The Sindarin Elvish word for forest is Tawar. (Dawar, if used as a...
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shanearda
Jun 30, 2007 11:35 pm
The four Drūgish names or words that Tolkien revealed are _Ghān-buri- Ghān_, _Aghan_ (the name of a Drūg in UT), _Drūg_ (pl. _Drughu_), and _gorgūn_...
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jesper@...
simplyanalogue
Jul 1, 2007 4:24 am
Interesting! I've never even lend a tought to that language in the books... "angry pig" describes the nature of the orchs better than others. ;) electronically...
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jesper@...
simplyanalogue
Jul 1, 2007 4:31 am
Spelling like an "angry pig" myself this time of the morning - sorry... electronically yours, jesper - -- --- ---- ----- ---- --- -- - ...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Jul 1, 2007 9:41 am
... I think _Taurion*_ ('forest-son', i.e. Keith), which happens to sound the same but is not written the same in Sindarin and Quenya, is more in style for...
34164
shokalabucha
Jul 1, 2007 2:47 pm
Hi everyone, I am striving to learn Sindarin from the online sources; and soon I'll receive David Salo's book. My intention is to be able to converse in...
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iiipitaka
Jul 1, 2007 3:02 pm
... It goes to show what you can see when you are familiar with a particular language! I don't know anything about Berber, and when I look at the same set of...
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Måns Björkman
mansbjorkman
Jul 1, 2007 3:34 pm
... Doesn't it seem more likely that _i_ here rather is a relative pronoun, as in _i Eru i or ilye mahalmar ea_ "the One who is above all thrones" in Cirion's...
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iiipitaka
Jul 1, 2007 6:12 pm
... All of these functions are potentially reconcilable. The relative pronoun functions as what is syntactically called a complementizer; it takes what could...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Jul 2, 2007 7:43 pm
... I'd like to point out that _nahtana_ looks similar to Tśrin's Sindarin nickname _Neithan_ 'the Wronged' (UT:456). UT:282 cites NEK- 'narrow' with Q....
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 3, 2007 1:13 am
... complete and clearly written" conjugations of 'to be' in his late writings. Even the more "complete and clearly written" texts often give the impression of...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 3, 2007 12:05 pm
... Yes, I know that. I was more wondering about the completely different reception the 'to be' paradigm received as compared to the pronominal verb endings....
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iiipitaka
Jul 3, 2007 3:38 pm
... That isn't just the same distinction; "Finland is cold" is talking about a general *state* attributed to the region of Finland; whereas "I write in German"...
34173
"Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond
Jul 3, 2007 9:48 pm
... Beside the sense distinctions, it is also usual English to say 'You think Finland is cold, but Jukka thought it was warm', letting object clause verbs...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 4, 2007 7:01 am
... I'm not particularly smart in linguistic wording, so please indulge me if I go straight for the idea: I don't see how logically, the four forms you wrote...
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A.W.T.
aolung
Jul 4, 2007 8:54 am
... Although not exactly your point, iiipitaka's definition of what is meant by the term aorist (as a side note) certainly is the correct one :) so there's...
34176
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 4, 2007 9:34 am
... A definition is a label you attach to some idea - as such, it cannot be correct or incorrect :-) The Finnish Genitive certainly isn't the same in function...
