... Yes, that's in _The Silmarillion_. ... There undoubtedly was much contact between the three groups, and their languages undoubtedly influenced each other,...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Feb 6, 1999 12:59 am
[Andreas Johansson:] ... situation, ... languages ... [Måns Björkman:] ... Whether it really fits the internal history or not, I don't think we can dispense...
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Josu Gomez
josu@...
Feb 6, 1999 12:40 am
In the Spanish Tolkien Society's annual meeting (Sabadell, December 1998) I gave a lecture called "Sociolinguistica Beleriandica" (Sociolinguistics of...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
Feb 5, 1999 3:46 am
... But you forget one thing: Elwe was lost on a journey visiting his family and friends among the Noldor. I think it a great mistake to think the Eldar just...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Feb 5, 1999 12:23 am
... For a distinct Eldarin to have emerged, the three clans of the Eldar must have had a relatively close contact during the march. Several sources indicate...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Feb 4, 1999 3:11 am
... lexical ... the ... guess ... to ... languages ... n, r, ... roots ... know ... have a ... I'm told that a well educated Englishman uses some 2000-3000...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Feb 3, 1999 1:33 am
... Why not? I believe Tolkien was after a set of languages which would look as natural as possible. I wish we had enough info to set Quenya in front of a...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Feb 3, 1999 12:31 am
... ... PS- with all the consonants (46 for Angerthas Moria), that totals 97,336 total combinations of consonants. And that's just with 3 consonants. Isn't...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Feb 1, 1999 1:15 pm
... I'd vote for the root being ultimately NL', final aleph. *na^la' parallel to za^ram > na^la *nul' parallel to khuzd, bund > nul The Dwarves had a rune (35)...
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Jay Lawson
lawson@...
Feb 1, 1999 1:55 am
Thanks to Helge for providing the quotes. My mind is pretty much settled on the matter of Kibil-na^la now. Fron Helge: In TI:174-175, Christopher Tolkien...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Jan 31, 1999 6:21 pm
... Well, first of all I think it's important to point out, that the Angerthas was neither created by dwarves nor primarily designed to represent the sounds of...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 31, 1999 6:04 pm
... different p= ... meanings, an= ... tabl= ... with w= ... wou= ... some I= ... phoneme. F= ... this fr= ... the= ... table. I= ... appearing= ... 97,336...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 31, 1999 6:04 pm
... As I wrote to EJK, I meant "completely without irregularities"; w/ "logical". I reallize I didn't chose my words with enough care when writing above. Sorry....
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 31, 1999 6:04 pm
... "nar"= ... But= ... I simply meant there's irregularities. Words that don't fit the pattern (esp very common words like _naa_ must've been) etc. Of course...
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John Garth
john_garth@...
Jan 31, 1999 6:04 pm
... Sad to say, I did this about 15 years ago when I should have been reading Dickens in preparation for my degree course. However, I used the English...
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Julie Lim
wombat1138@...
Jan 31, 1999 2:08 am
A thought struck me (ow!) during a fit of insomnia-- has anyone ever drawn up frequency distributions from the corpus? How would a set of Scrabble tiles for...
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MARCUS ANTHONY SMITH
smithma@...
Jan 30, 1999 6:30 pm
... You seem to be mistaken here, if my memory serves. Kibil is a reference to the metal itself. There is a passage suggesting that Dwarves found silver in...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 30, 1999 6:01 pm
Back to the sources... ... In TI:174-175, Christopher Tolkien reproduces this note that his father wrote: _Zirak-zigil_ should mean 'Silver-spike' (cf....
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Jay Lawson
manxman@...
Jan 30, 1999 6:01 pm
In my little study of Khuzdul, I got to wondering just how many different patterns of consonants there could be to give different lexical meanings, and also...
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tirachinas@...
Jan 30, 1999 6:01 pm
Well, the Subject line says it all: I am introducing myself. I am Diego Seguí (there should be an accent on the las 'i'); I live in Córdoba, Argentina, in...
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Jay Lawson
lawson@...
Jan 30, 1999 8:11 am
Referencing my last post on "mazarbul"; my feeling is that "mazarbul"; would not be used alone, but instead with a preceding word for "chamber". Here's why: ...
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Jay Lawson
lawson@...
Jan 30, 1999 8:11 am
Round and round we go on this topic, but ain't it fun? :) I can still go either way on Kibil-na^la, being the Silverlode or the springs. There seems to be...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jan 30, 1999 8:11 am
... This is perhaps a too quick assumption. First, it really depends on what you intend by 'logical'. This term is usually applied to a particular kind of...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Jan 29, 1999 1:10 pm
... That's an interesting theory. I'm not sure to what aspect of language you are referring. Sure, irregularities (seen from a synchronical level) appear in...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Jan 29, 1999 1:10 pm
... It is not because _nin_ is used as a "declined dative form of the pronoun" that you could used _ni_ (nin minus n) as a subject form in Quenya. EJK PS Ni...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Jan 29, 1999 1:10 pm
... Yes it could have been "Baniai" but Tolkien usually likes to complicate things. Vanyar is said to come from the stem *wan in "Quendi and Eldar" not from...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Jan 29, 1999 1:10 pm
... = ... Should I contest the logic of my statement. ;-) No. Logic is also part of the Human language. But I won't send us to any philosophical or...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 29, 1999 3:43 am
... is ... I feel we'ren't understandin' eachother completely. Usually it is said that to (more or less similar) sounds are different phonemes if we have a...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 29, 1999 3:43 am
... by= Galadriel uses _nin_ in Namaarie, which at least looks like _ni_ pluse the dative ending _-n_. ... to= ... [independent],= ... yo= ... pronominal = ......
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Edward Beattie
edward@...
Jan 29, 1999 3:43 am
... Hob o'the Hill comes from English folklore. Considered as an abbreviation for Robin, it is one of the nicknames of a creature various known as Puck, Nick...
