The term "Neo-Quenya" seems to mean different things to different people. I remember editing wars on Wikipedia, the controversy hinging on whether "Neo-Quenya"...
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matthias liszt
gunananda
Sep 23, 2010 3:36 am
Well, I'd like to say that Thorsten fully expressed what I meant. About my comparison with Yiddish, Swiss German and so on I'd like to say that it is difficult...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Sep 23, 2010 3:36 am
... Sorry if I misunderstood your words. Perhaps I should not be so "hasty", as one Fangorn might have said. One more thought, however: I've been checking the...
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Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole
Sep 23, 2010 3:35 am
So an Elvish Sitcom might be called "Lenya, Ninya, Menya"?...
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winterhavik
Sep 22, 2010 3:13 pm
Hello, A while back Helga F. wrote about a possible use of ninya for a word showing first person singular possession. I recently saw in Petri Tikka's excellent...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Sep 22, 2010 3:10 pm
Some elfish suggestions for good-bye: Travel well. Don't eat bad food I have to go/I have to stay Going to see a man about a joining the rohirrim Don't take...
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josiahmccoy63
Sep 22, 2010 2:39 pm
Interesting; you certainly know more of Welsh than I do. Thanks for laying that out. I will say, though, that I would consider _hwyl (fawr)_, _pob hwyll_, and...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Sep 21, 2010 12:37 pm
... This sounds surprising. I know very little about Welsh, but I've found a number of terms that do not seem to come from "farewell"; at all: - _hwyl (fawr)_...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 21, 2010 12:37 pm
... Let me try to respond to this. The argument being made is that different brands of Quenya are mutually intellegible. It is certainly true that I can read...
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Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba...
Sep 21, 2010 12:36 pm
I do want to reply, more as a point of clarification, but am continuing on your new topic. I'm not entirely sure what your point is, but linguists determine...
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Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba...
Sep 21, 2010 12:35 pm
Matthias, As always, danke for your enthusiasm and wanting to move forward, help the community and be clear. I, also, am for those goals. :) I apologise for...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Sep 21, 2010 12:35 pm
Swedish has a couple of ways, depending on where you are from Adjo Hei da Synes Adjo sa lange (Kind of informal) Vi ses (see you) Vi ses senare (see you later)...
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josiahmccoy63
Sep 20, 2010 9:06 pm
Well, as far as I know, the ways to say "goodbye" in Welsh are all variants on "fare well". I don't know about Scandinavian languages....
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matthias liszt
gunananda
Sep 20, 2010 9:05 pm
The term "Neo-Quenya" is already in use and it's not me who started it. It might be helpful to at least define it more clearly - by editing wikipedia entries...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Sep 20, 2010 2:23 pm
Hello, ... The main issue I have against both arguments is that they mimic this phrase on the English one. As far as we know, Tolkien took great care to avoid...
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maike
maikedulk
Sep 20, 2010 2:08 pm
I am happy to read this. I do not know whether the reason to apply the prefix neo- for any Quenya or Sindarin text not written by Professor Tolkien himself was...
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CLH harding
clh8518
Sep 19, 2010 10:56 am
... prickles a bit on the back of my neck. Let me explain in brief: when we rename contemporary usage of a language to a new language, are we being ...
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wigdawei
Sep 18, 2010 1:40 pm
Thanks for your perspective. I'm looking to keep everything in the martial perspective in which it was intended.. Not getting a second chance is less about...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 17, 2010 12:52 pm
... to the research and corpus creation of Neo-Quenya. Thank you... ... "Heldequenya" in the Neo-Quenya language. I thought the "ld" cluster would be prefered...
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josiahmccoy63
Sep 17, 2010 12:51 pm
The absence of a word meaning "farewell"; or "goodbye" is a well-known problem in Sindarin. In his excellent course, Thorsten Renk suggests that the compound...
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matthias liszt
gunananda
Sep 17, 2010 12:40 pm
due to the reactions I got by using "Neo-Quenya" and its unclear definition I thought of using another. I thought of using the term given by the author plus...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Sep 17, 2010 12:39 pm
... A better English translation might be "You don't get a second chance to make a first impression" -- I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will...
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wigdawei
Sep 15, 2010 10:04 pm
Hello, I am looking for the Sindarin translation of the Japanese Ichigo-Ichie "One encounter, one chance". Ichigo-Ichie means that every encounter with...
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Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba...
Sep 15, 2010 3:08 am
Not to always seem contrary, but though I know you are asking about consonant cluster preferability ("ld" vs "lg"), I must simply ask why do you even need to...
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Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba...
Sep 15, 2010 3:07 am
Matthias, I appreciate your fervor to try and consolidate examples extant in Quenya to help provide exemplars for those learning and researching the language. ...
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matthias liszt
gunananda
Sep 14, 2010 4:16 pm
Helge F. is to my knowledge the most known and most cited contributer to the research and corpus creation of Neo-Quenya. To such an extent that due to the...
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matthias liszt
gunananda
Sep 11, 2010 12:19 pm
the idea is a compilation of 108 neo-quenya sentences which demonstrate most of the syntatic features of quenya and provide an aid to the translation into...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 9, 2010 1:24 pm
... I agree. Cheers, * Thorsten...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Sep 9, 2010 1:23 pm
... In Latin there is double accusative. We cannot tell how the idiom is in Quenya. Lukas...
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ffvi_locke_cole
Sep 9, 2010 1:23 pm
Okay, one of my friends wants to get a tattoo in Sindarin meaning "Through Thorns to the Stars", which I'm to design. I'm no great linguist, but I have a...
