Greetings, Years ago, when working on Hisweloke's Sindarin dictionary project, dictionary applications were made available our users: first my own web-based...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 4, 2011 1:34 pm
It has been called to my attention that an artist by the name of Doda has a string of little videos on YouTube that include little phrases in "Elvish". I...
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lynndir
Nov 4, 2011 1:35 pm
Hello elflings anyone cans tell me ? "make a wish" in sindarin words ________________________________ De : Lynndir <lynndir@...> À :...
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maike
maikedulk
Nov 5, 2011 12:53 pm
Apparently, this 'Doda' is a sort of Polish Lady Gaga, and on her last album called "the Seven Temptations", she recorded some sentences about "what she really...
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pfstrack
Nov 5, 2011 11:18 pm
I will take a stab at this. My Sindarin is not that good, though, which is why I hesitated to answer. I am not sure where you got _enira_ from. It isn't in...
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TF
percival64
Nov 9, 2011 2:58 am
or, maybe simply _anÃro iest_ 'wish a wish' - a bit of a tautology, I admit:) Â Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss Eldarin languages -...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 9, 2011 2:51 pm
Perhaps I am missing the obvious, but what is wrong with simply _aniro_ ? In English, at least, "make a wish" and "wish" mean exactly the same thing (IMHO), so...
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Rodrigo Jaroszewski
rjaroszewski
Nov 11, 2011 1:22 am
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the EPUB format just a collection of HTML files inside a container? In that case, your work could be used to create an EPUB...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 16, 2011 4:04 pm
With the publication of the two latest issues of Parma Eldalamberon, we have now have fairly detailed information about the phonology of various forms of...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Nov 22, 2011 7:34 pm
Hi Everybody! I have the pleasure to announce that the second release of our Elvish Diary is available: One version all in Quenya but written with numbers and...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Nov 26, 2011 6:10 am
At my university there's a study on the dialects of English spoken in Montana. I went to a presentation of some of their findings, and was quite surprised by...
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iiipitaka
Nov 26, 2011 7:19 am
... 'Tolkien's dialect' in this case isn't (necessarily) either his native pronunciation or even his mature pronunciation, but the pronunciation he expected...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Nov 26, 2011 2:42 pm
... David's addressed the issue of Elvish pronunciation, and I agree with what he says. On the specific issue of "for" and "four" - in modern non-rhotic ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 26, 2011 2:43 pm
To address my own little challenge the other day: Here is a text intended to illustrate the main changes in two phases of Quenya development: OLD QUENYA: ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 27, 2011 8:46 am
I am currently tryng to translate some more Bible text into Neo-Quenya, and I feel it's going relatively smoothly, but I shall need to coin a couple of words: ...
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pfstrack
Nov 27, 2011 8:47 am
This looks good to me. My suggestions: 1) I think you need to be careful about [r]. Not all of them are from [s] > [z] > [r]. For example, I think the [r] in...
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BPJ
melroch
Nov 27, 2011 7:04 pm
... Since the Indo-European etymological database, or at least the free version of it, has gone offline (which I said something Orcish about!) I looked up...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Nov 29, 2011 4:36 am
... I apologize if that was vague. I picked up the term in my phonetics class, and it was used to represent the differences in the constriction of the glottis....
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Nov 29, 2011 4:36 am
Listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfYy4gW9L4&feature=player_embedded It sounds to me like the Os aren't open. Are my ears fooling me then?...
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Jay Lawson
jay.lawson@...
Nov 29, 2011 4:37 am
I would like to inform everyone that I now have a new website which has an analysis and eventual expansion of Khuzdul. You can find the site at: ...
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Diego Seguí
tirachinas
Nov 29, 2011 4:37 am
... Note that Gk. _sinapi_ has a long alpha, so the Q loanword could be _sinápi/e_ instead (stem _i-_, like in Gk gen. _sinápios_). That means shifting the...
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Olivier Scheeck
olivier.scheeck
Nov 29, 2011 9:39 pm
On the subject of mustard, it seems that the word is composed of *mustum *(young wine) and *ardent *(hot), which is not very surprising since mustard contains...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Nov 29, 2011 9:39 pm
... No. He has [É”] in places where English allows it, and a slightly diphthongized or reduced lowish [o] elsewhere. In other words, he has an English accent! ...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 29, 2011 9:40 pm
... possibly some Semitic source in the case of alabaster, and at least _sinapi_ may have felt like a foreignism to Greek speakers, so I'd suggest borrowing...
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BPJ
melroch
Nov 29, 2011 9:40 pm
... Why not with X-SAMPA: "r\"? <http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA> or the rather more pliable CXS derivative: <http://www.theiling.de/ipa/> However...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Nov 30, 2011 8:02 pm
... Or why not just with the IPA? Yahoo Mail doesn't have any objection to [ɹ], does it? My previous phonetic symbols appear to have gone through ok, and as ...
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Paul Strack
pfstrack
Nov 30, 2011 8:02 pm
... There were originally distinct tengwa used for the three original sounds: #25 for [r] < *[r], #21 for [r] < [r\] < *[d] and #31 for †[z] < *[s]. This ...
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Diego Seguí
tirachinas
Nov 30, 2011 8:02 pm
... _albatos_ is given as the earlier form of Gk _alábastron_ in www.etymonline.com, but I'd say that it's just a mistake for _alábastos_ (which is the...
What is the evidence that [r] (alveolar trill) > [r\] (alveolar approximant)? That's a fairly unusual phonetic change to occur without outside influence,...
