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35883 matthias liszt
gunananda Send Email
Sep 20, 2010
9:05 pm
The term "Neo-Quenya&quot; 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...
35884 josiahmccoy63 Send Email 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....
35885 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
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)...
35886 Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba... Send Email
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...
35887 Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba... Send Email
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...
35888 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
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...
35889 Damien
elendil.voronda Send Email
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)_...
35890 josiahmccoy63 Send Email 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...
35891 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
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...
35892 winterhavik Send Email 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...
35893 Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole Send Email
Sep 23, 2010
3:35 am
So an Elvish Sitcom might be called "Lenya, Ninya, Menya"?...
35894 Damien
elendil.voronda Send Email
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...
35895 matthias liszt
gunananda Send Email
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...
35896 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Sep 23, 2010
4:22 am
The term "Neo-Quenya&quot; seems to mean different things to different people. I remember editing wars on Wikipedia, the controversy hinging on whether "Neo-Quenya&quot;...
35897 Thorsten Renk
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Sep 23, 2010
1:34 pm
... See http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/quenya_pronouns.html especially the beginning of chapter 5. Cheers, * Thorsten...
35898 Thorsten Renk
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Sep 23, 2010
1:35 pm
... I don't think that anyone claims that the difference would be in structure. The claim is that the difference is in the completeness of our knowledge....
35899 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Sep 24, 2010
1:00 am
... Lenya - your, yours Senya - His, Hers its Menya Ours ????? - yours Tenya -Theirs _Ninya_ and _menya_ are attested, as are _nin_ "for me" and _men_ "for ...
35900 Roman
rausch_roman Send Email
Sep 24, 2010
3:32 pm
... But why would it have something to do with the dative? It rather looks like the n-movable of Ancient Greek to me, _ni-_ is extended to _nin-_ in order to...
35901 iiipitaka Send Email Sep 26, 2010
12:12 pm
... any ... Certainly you have. The Sindarin text in lines 99-103 of the revised "Lay of Leithian" is entirely uncommented and unexplained, yet is also ...
35902 Thorsten Renk
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Sep 28, 2010
3:42 am
... Well, here we're using 'Quenya&#39; to refer to two different things. If you think of a hierarchy Quenya: * Tolkien-made Quenya * Neo-Quenya * ... in analogy...
35903 Evenstar
evenstar62 Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
1:06 pm
Hi!   Just some news... Do you know that the greater solar boat ever built, has just started a world tour.   It's name is MS Túranor derived directly from...
35904 Christopher Gonzales
mormonlds98 Send Email
Sep 29, 2010
6:04 pm
Can someone exp to or guide mean tolkien ‘s etymologies in the lost road book what do it mean ? can I use it to find a new What if i want a word/words that ...
35905 George M
pans_lair Send Email
Sep 29, 2010
6:05 pm
This is VERY much in line with what I believe needs to happen with Quenya if it would continue to grow into a practical, SPOKEN language.  Quenya must evolve...
35906 lsgallant
firielperedhel Send Email
Sep 29, 2010
6:05 pm
That is really cool! ;-) Laurinda Gallant ________________________________ From: Evenstar <evenstar62@...> To: elfling@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue,...
35907 CLH harding
clh8518 Send Email
Sep 29, 2010
6:05 pm
Cool Was the element 'túr' ever explained in the Lord of the Rings though? Because if not it's not exactly derived "directly fromthe Lord of the Rings" is it?...
35908 slasher_tb Send Email Sep 29, 2010
6:05 pm
I think it's cool that they are looking at Elvish names with good eyes, they definitely sound fair. I have to hand it to the Swiss! Although I must say that...
35909 CLH harding
clh8518 Send Email
Sep 29, 2010
6:06 pm
Come to think about it, I don't think the name's quite right. Túranor, like you wrote, would be right, but on the sight they've got Tûranor. I'm not an...
35910 CLH harding
clh8518 Send Email
Sep 29, 2010
6:06 pm
*site Here I am nitpicking over the right kind of accent mark, and I can't even spell a word my own language. ... From: Evenstar <evenstar62@...> Subject:...
35911 CLH harding
clh8518 Send Email
Sep 30, 2010
1:07 pm
... Although I must say that Túranor wouldn't translate as "The Power of the Sun" as they wanted but rather as "Master of the Sun" or "Victor over the Sun"...
35912 slasher_tb Send Email Sep 30, 2010
10:22 pm
But not "power" in the sense of "energy" think about it. I think 'tûr' is more like "mastery" rather than "energy"....
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