Andy I'm no expert by any means imaginary, but I thought there was not verb "to be" in Sindarin. I thought pronouns were used to express "to be". Joe ... to ...
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digetolk
Sep 2, 2007 12:39 am
... very ... And of course Renk's and Fauskanger's courses!! the course of Fauskanger has also exercises..;)...
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digetolk
Sep 2, 2007 12:40 am
Hello to everyone! I just joined this group,and it's fantastic! goodbye from Italy!...
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Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Sep 2, 2007 2:43 am
... That is how WE used to write movie-Sindarin, due to our lack of knowledge of the verb 'to be', not how Sindarin actually IS. Don't confuse our theories...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Sep 2, 2007 5:53 am
Hi!
Today we have a little problem about possessive plural used as adjectival case.
nálvë tieiva
we are made of lines
But, in a former message of mine,...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 2, 2007 3:58 pm
... Strangely enough, one needs to go back just to 25th of June to read a review of VT49 in which you remark on the long time between issues and the fact that...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Sep 2, 2007 5:28 pm
Thanks Thorsten, for saying what I've often thought about this subject. I think you hit the nail on the head although I have no doubt you're going to have the...
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Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Sep 2, 2007 10:48 pm
I would improvise *tieva or *tieriva but it is just my personal lamatyave, since I don't recall anything from Tolkien to answer your question....
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faelach69
Sep 2, 2007 11:48 pm
... *salôn** ... *sulűn ... wordlists. ... Sorry I didn't put sources in these essays! First of all, my issue of PE17 is on the way, so I'll update the...
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ceciliania
Sep 2, 2007 11:48 pm
Thank you for your feedback, Elhath! I hadn't thought about the partitive plural, that's a much better option. And what do you think about the allative case?...
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Joseph
doomsday1183
Sep 2, 2007 11:49 pm
So has this theory of using the pronouns to express "to be" been debunked due to new understandings? Since you have said this is how you used to write it, how...
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iiipitaka
Sep 3, 2007 12:33 am
After a nice refreshing period of good comments and discussion, it looks like things are heating up again. I'd like to ask everyone involved to keep calm and,...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 3, 2007 7:02 am
... My overview "The verb 'to be' in Tolkien's Elvish languages" is in need of an update since much about paradigms for 'to be' in Quenya has been published in...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 3, 2007 7:03 am
I am pleased to announce that I managed to write up my analysis of the Sindarin past tense forms in PE17 over the weekend in a new article: The Sindarin Past...
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S P
elenyona
Sep 3, 2007 2:47 pm
... "Against" Helge's recent theory which would suggest *_tiaiva_ (ei > ai) goes Alex Grigny de Castro's alternate solution, *_tíva_[1] (with ei > ii). Elhath...
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ramaroreo
Sep 3, 2007 3:25 pm
... The problem could be avoided by using the partitive plural, since there are many lines - tielíva And since this sentence seems to be from the...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Sep 3, 2007 5:40 pm
ramaroreo a écrit :
> >
>> nálvë tieiva
> > we are made of lines
> >
> >
> > Evenstar
>Hi,
> The problem could be avoided by using the partitive...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Sep 3, 2007 6:22 pm
... Since *ei > í I'd guess _tíva*_. I could also imagine _tierwa*_ as an analogical form, but something in me dislikes it... /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip...
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ramaroreo
Sep 3, 2007 7:47 pm
Hi, I think the partitive plural is a plural that is not distinct, so depending on a sentence, it can mean "some" or simply an undefined number that does not...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Sep 3, 2007 7:49 pm
Hm... The possessive plural on "iva" presumably goes back to the original plural marker _-i_ that was later replaced by _-r_. Would it be possible to...
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digetolk
Sep 3, 2007 9:06 pm
... have been willing just a little longer for the Valmaric runes...' and so on. Well - some others turn out to be interested only in scripts and will not find...
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eambalova
Sep 3, 2007 9:07 pm
2 Matt Thank you for such an interesting link) 2 Lakis Lalakis Thank you very much for this short guide. But after I've understood what the most difficult...
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finsen@...
ravenduongla...
Sep 3, 2007 9:09 pm
Collaboration works both ways. caio Graeme ... From: Thorsten Renk To: elfling@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 1:58 AM Subject: [elfling] On...
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eambalova
Sep 3, 2007 9:10 pm
thanks to everyone)) The links are very useful!! And I'm sorry for posting almost the same message again, I couldn't find the previous one)...
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TF
percival64
Sep 4, 2007 9:28 am
Hello, as far as I am aware "T" is not aspirated in Sindarin or Quenya, if you pronounce it like Russian "T" before the vowels a, o, u, you will be fine. ... ...
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Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Sep 4, 2007 9:42 am
In Quenya and Sindarin, and I guess this is also a tendency in most conlangs, you must usually go with the most 'neutral' and 'original' value of the letters,...
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faelach69
Sep 4, 2007 3:27 pm
First of all, I'd like to thank David Salo for his saelbeth. In my opinion, it's not an issue of whether or not some of us want 'LotR- style' elvish published...
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meneldilv
Sep 4, 2007 3:28 pm
... Well, the original nominative plural would be *teńei > *tiei, and the later form could have existed for a while, if monophthongizaion occurred later....
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 4, 2007 3:40 pm
It turns out that PE17 in addition to a number of past tense forms contains also a lot of perfect forms, especially for derived verbs for which previously not...
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TF
percival64
Sep 5, 2007 8:14 am
frankly, this reheated debate is disappointing, from both sides; like a bunch of five-year olds quarreling in the sandbox; so instead of sparring over who gets...
