... i.e. a certain meaning goes ... could ... Russian, Dutch and Hindi are all Indo-european languages, that's it, they belong to the same language family....
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
Mar 5, 1999 12:46 pm
Thorwald Peeters <thorkien@...> wrote: <Some elvish welcoming wish> ... i.e. a certain meaning goes ... Not very elvish, but ever considered the...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 5, 1999 12:46 pm
... in Elvish, to which there seem to be correspondences in 'real-world' languages. Besides correspondences in individual languages it occurs to me, that...
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Thorwald Peeters
thorkien@...
Mar 5, 1999 12:58 am
<Some elvish welcoming wish> ... Not very elvish, but ever considered the different words for tea? On writing this I (someone with no linguistic knowledge...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 5, 1999 12:58 am
From the Ardalambion: "... the Sindarin name of Tom Bombadil was given as Iarwain, meaning "Eldest". The ending -wain would seem to be the superlative suffix....
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 5, 1999 12:58 am
... in ... languages. ... I'd ... has ... etc. ... in ... * ... that ... goes ... elsewhere ... elvish ... are ... attracted ... drawn ... It has been argueed...
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David Kiltz
mail.uni-muenster.de@...
Mar 4, 1999 12:56 am
Everybody who has studied some Elvish has noticed, that there are words in Elvish, to which there seem to be correspondences in 'real-world' languages. Besides...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 3, 1999 1:03 pm
... quite ... exchange in ... the ... by ... "Mentalese" ... Grammar. ... just the ... You happen to be wrong. I got it in the atticle "Vi föds som ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 3, 1999 1:03 pm
... to= ... = ... very= ... (and = ... = ... h= ... Home = ... quite ... i= ... the= ... I think you just excluded all psychology from Science :-) But this...
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bpj@...
Mar 3, 1999 1:03 pm
... [snipping myself] ... OK, I was a bit unfair to Tolkien: he SAID, in Quendi and Eldar, that the Elves "updated" their memories, so that they remembered old...
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Raymond A. Brown
raybrown@...
Mar 2, 1999 12:59 pm
At 11:28 am -0500 28/2/99, Edward Kloczko wrote: [....] ... Pinker is the author - and I forget off hand the name of the book; my son's borrowed my copy. ... ...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
Mar 2, 1999 12:59 pm
... My guess would be that the book in question was "The Language Instinct" by Stephen Pinker, since that is the only place I have seen the term "Mentalese" ...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
Mar 2, 1999 12:58 pm
... Let's apply this idea to the real world. Can you recall the exact sounds you created in an utterance made ten years ago? Five? Just three weeks? I ...
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David Kiltz
mail.uni-muenster.de@...
Mar 1, 1999 12:44 pm
Compounds in Semitic: Strictly speaking there are no compounds in Semitic with very few exceptions. In Akkadian, names (like Sanherib) are written in one word...
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Josu Gomez
josu@...
Mar 1, 1999 12:44 pm
... [...] ... All that I know is Aldudeenie was composed by Elemmiire of the Vanyar... So, perhaps the word is Vanyarin, and not Noldorin Quenya. I don't know ...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Mar 1, 1999 12:44 pm
... That Aldudénie has a typographical error (a misspelling) is out of the question because it is so spelled not only in the 1977 Silmarillion but also in the...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Mar 1, 1999 12:44 pm
... Regarding the problem of language change amongst the immortals Elves Tolkien addressed this question in a long and quite important essay : "Dangweth...
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Edward Beattie
edward@...
Mar 1, 1999 12:44 pm
... From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> ... Correctly. I have never heard it pronounced any way other than /vauel/. Incidentally, there is an English...
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Raymond A. Brown
raybrown@...
Feb 27, 1999 6:43 pm
... Normally, /vaul/ but in slow, careful speech /'vau@l/. Ray. ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/elfling Free Web-based e-mail groups by...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Feb 27, 1999 4:59 pm
Lotsa people have pointed out that _Aldudénie_ "Lament of the Two Trees" is an odd form, since Q don't allow intervocalic _d_. Since we have an independent...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Feb 27, 1999 4:59 pm
... stages of their languages puzzles me, since at least some gifted individuals could have recalled how they used to speak and used as informants. Pengolodh...
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Graeme Finsen
gfinsen@...
Feb 27, 1999 2:54 am
How about something using "alkar" ? Regards Graeme ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/elfling Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com...
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bpj@...
Feb 27, 1999 1:24 am
<36b9f2df.e937729-@...> wrote: Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/list/elfling/?start=340 ... <36bc5722.1d646fd-@...> wrote: ...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Feb 23, 1999 12:32 pm
... Well, not exactly. The "locative"; case expresses the spatial position of a static item (for instance "the cat is *in* the tree", but also "John is *at* the...
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Vicentini Emanuele
vicentin@...
Feb 22, 1999 6:28 pm
Hi everybody, This is my first message to this mailing list even if I suscribed last December. I've already bothered some of you many times during the last...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
Feb 21, 1999 11:04 pm
I don't know if you all would find this interesting or not, but I have been trying to produce an abecedarium, that is a little sentence or so that contains all...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Feb 21, 1999 9:44 pm
... If we are taking JRRT completely litterally, the first element in Khuzdul _ai_ is pronounced a little further back than the first element in English _eye_,...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Feb 21, 1999 9:44 pm
... "machine", ... E ... of ... "were" is ... of ... central, ... unrounded. Sorry. I should've written "father", not "machine". But in the variety of English...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Feb 20, 1999 3:06 pm
... but one thing I never found, not in Ardalambion, nor in any other places, ... Speech, the system is X ten-piece and X, for example 13 is one ten-piece and...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Feb 20, 1999 4:29 am
... Really? The only comment on the vowel sounds I can find in Appendix E says "the sounds were approximately those represented by i,e,a,o,u in English...
