The LCS is launching a new online journal called Fiat Lingua: http://fiatlingua.org/ A new article will appear on the first of every month. Articles will be...
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janine.kaihau
Sep 21, 2011 1:50 pm
Before it becomes permanent, could any member please verify my translation below into Quenya: I LOVE YOU ALWAYS I LOVED YOU MORE THAN LIFE melnyët illumë ...
Thanks so much, Mans, that's fantastic. Are there any umlauts included in that translation? Thanks again Janine To: elfling@yahoogroups.com From:...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Sep 25, 2011 1:19 am
The dots over the letter "e" are not umlauts but diaereses, used to emphasize that the letter is not silent. They can therefore be omitted, as Tolkien...
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Olivier Scheeck
olivier.scheeck
Sep 26, 2011 1:33 pm
Hello. A couple months ago I posted in this group about a paragraph of the Silmarillion which I tried to translate into Quenya. I am trying now to transcribe...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 26, 2011 8:50 pm
I have uploaded a rough version of my revised Quenya course here: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/lessons.rtf There is still no link from the Ardalambion main page,...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins@...
Sep 27, 2011 8:33 pm
Helge This is brilliant your work in the past has been very helpful and will eagerly read this through and give you any comments. Working on Finnish at the...
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ramaroreo
Sep 27, 2011 8:34 pm
Thank you, Helge, for this revised course. I look forward to reading it. ... The font size and the capitals can easily be corrected by everyone: - save the...
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Pavel Dimov
dimmov
Sep 27, 2011 8:34 pm
Thank you very much! Harya alasse! ... Ammornil Henduluin On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Helge K. Fauskanger < ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
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Janine Morris
janine.kaihau
Sep 27, 2011 8:34 pm
Thanks once again Mans for such technical advice. I can successfully get it set in stone now. Janine To: elfling@yahoogroups.com From: at@... ...
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Yvonne Van Brimmer
hobbitwife
Sep 28, 2011 6:05 pm
Thank you for the update on the Quenya course. Most appreciated! Yvonne Yvonne Van Brimmer aka.Tamurile Halfelven "Nai Laivin caluva tielyanna!" [Non-text...
I am a bit puzzled by the construction of the comparative, as my two main sources disagree on this: Fauskanger gives a construction using _lĂĄ_ _Anar nĂĄ...
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fra.veneziano
Oct 1, 2011 12:50 am
Thanks, I'll read it carefully in the next days. A pdf version would be greatly appreciated for portability and consistence. I have a doubt about the use of...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 2, 2011 7:55 pm
... Of course it doesn't matter whether you write ë or e, but do we have any example of Tolkien using the spelling "ë" at the end of a monosyllabic word like...
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Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba...
Oct 3, 2011 9:23 pm
With regards to the diaresis: since it is intended to indicate to *non-speakers* that final _e_'s are to be pronounced, not only are they superfluous with...
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yitzik_ua
Oct 6, 2011 11:25 pm
Máriessë, a moinë nildonyar! ... First of all, I'd like to express my sincere gratitude to Helge for his excellent course. It was my starting...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Oct 6, 2011 11:26 pm
... Yes, you are probably right that _e_ with diaeresis does not occur in any monosyllabic words. Since the diaeresis is redundant anyway, that would really be...
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fra.veneziano
Oct 8, 2011 1:13 pm
I have encountered on some websites the expression _vanya sĂșliĂ«_ variedly translated as good/fair wind(s), presented as a form of farewell. Do you know any...
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fra.veneziano
Oct 8, 2011 1:13 pm
In Lesson 13, at the end of the section "The pronoun we", it says "whereas -mmĂ« (formerly exclusive plural) ended up as dual inclusive âweâ, with either...
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pfstrack
Oct 9, 2011 10:08 pm
I'd also like to thank you for producing your Quenya course, which was my re-introduction to Tolkien's languages after many years of absence. For formatting, I...
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Linda Naush
jouzinka
Oct 13, 2011 11:32 pm
Greetings to you all. =:) Thus far I was merely contented with transcribing texts, but now I decided to take the plunge for translation and I don't know if I...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Oct 13, 2011 11:32 pm
I think the internet devoured the diacritics you were trying to use, and turned them into random symbols. How about good old geminant vowels? Were you trying...
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ithidrielnarsilion
ithidrielnar...
Oct 14, 2011 2:18 pm
Greetings Francesco, If you look in Parma Eldalamberon 17, vanya is listed under the root BAN as including the sense Fair and Fine in terms of weather. So...
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BPJ
melroch
Oct 15, 2011 1:38 pm
... It's not 'the internet' but Yahoo Groups' email interface which garbles Unicode (UTF-8) by interpreting Unicode encoded text as if it were Latin-1 encoded,...
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pfstrack
Oct 16, 2011 1:52 pm
Here is what I would suggest. I apologize in advance for getting pedantic. ... With "hands", I would use the dual _-t_ instead of the partitive plural _-li_....
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lynndir
Oct 17, 2011 12:56 pm
Hello elflings would you like to confirm me the short traduction of "make a wish" ("faire un voeu" in french) I hesitate with a simple "caro enira" or "echado...
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fra.veneziano
Oct 18, 2011 12:21 am
Thank you for your answers. Yes, I suspected it was a fan-made expression. And it is quite disappointing that yahoo! still doesn't interact well with Unicode...
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Linda Naush
jouzinka
Oct 20, 2011 2:11 am
Hi, Paul, ... No problem at all, quite to the contrary. I learned a lot from your elaborations. I only wish you were portable to carry with me. =;))) From all...
