Not to bash your work, which I think is very cool, but you shouldn't call it a Translator... It should probably be called a wordlist lookup or something...
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John Cowan
cowan@...
Jan 8, 2001 2:15 am
... Ah. No. It is called simply "definiteness" (or "indefiniteness"). -- John Cowan cowan@... One art/there is/no...
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Nite
nite@...
Jan 8, 2001 7:24 am
Hi. Erm. this is something I'd never excpected to do. My Swedish isn't so good, you know :) ... hm. to clarify things: 'a dog' := 'en hund' 'the dog' :=...
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Raymond Brown
ray.brown@...
Jan 8, 2001 7:27 am
... Yes, indeed, to us southrons the word does have an archaic or poetic feel to it. ... The change from deferential to familiar is precisely the way "thou"...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:47 am
Ice Pick wrote: +AD4-This poem I am translating into Quenya... +AD4- +AD4-Take my hand, +AD4-I will lead you, +AD4-To a land of Magic, +AD4-Where our dreams...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:48 am
I will try to give you my suggestions, but remember I am no expert and especially my vocabulary is quite poor... +AD4-Anduun+AOs- +AD4-The West General word...
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John Wordsworth
jw130@...
Jan 8, 2001 11:16 am
Aiya, ThanQ for your comments. I do however, hope to make it convert texts eventually, when I have got a big enough word-list and a better understanding of the...
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John Cowan
cowan@...
Jan 8, 2001 11:37 am
... In particular (remembered this too late), the Mouth of Sauron "thou"s everybody just to be insulting. -- John Cowan...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Jan 8, 2001 6:27 pm
... I see, quite a daunting task. What scripting/programming language are you doing it in? Perl? PHP? Namaarie, Eruanno ...
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Richard F. Smit
r.f.smit@...
Jan 8, 2001 6:32 pm
... I simply mean this: I've read both "species" and "noun-phrase" to describe the noun+adj. construction. More often than not, though, it is described as a...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Jan 8, 2001 6:40 pm
So I come up with this _mapa maanya_, Take my hand, _enyelye_,? I will lead you, _olos ananoore_, ?on the adjective To a land of Magic, _yasse olorilvar...
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David Chapman
varie_undomiel@...
Jan 8, 2001 7:43 pm
... Thanks very much for your comments and suggestions Lukas, they were a real help, and cleared up several worries I had had about the poem. I really must ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 8, 2001 8:58 pm
... You mean 'hunden'. ... What you're getting at is gender. Swedish have two indefinite articles _en_ and _ett_. The difference between them is gender (_en_...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:13 pm
Once in TolkLang archives I (looking for something else) found a message by David Salo responding to a mail by Milan Rezac about Quenya pronouns. It is from...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:32 pm
... But we still need a term for the stage between Primitive Quendian/Quenderin and the later branches like Old Quenya, Old Sindarin and Old Amanya Telerin ...
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Terry A. Dock
tdock@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:49 pm
Suilad, mellyn. I have been wondering recently if there was any record of a word -- either Q or S -- meaning "minstrel";. All I know is that the word "minstrel";...
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David Nowakowski
aragorn250@...
Jan 9, 2001 12:10 am
... Could we all please avoid special diacritic charaters in the body of our e-mails, and just use _aa_, _u^_, etc. Some e-mail programs, including mine, do...
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John Wordsworth
jw130@...
Jan 9, 2001 12:33 pm
Aiya, I mainly use perl for all of my programs that need to contain parsing of text, and that is what the current little script is written in. Perl is by far...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn@...
Jan 9, 2001 2:22 pm
Hi Friends! Thank you for your advice concerning my theory about the Common Eldarin > Quenya pronouns. I have made a Pronoun Chart (JPG file, colours) which...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Jan 9, 2001 4:38 pm
The Daunting task is to mechanically slice up the English sentance gramatically to translate into Quenya. Maybe you have found a better way to do it than just...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 9, 2001 6:28 pm
... which then was lost, sometimes leaving syllabic sonorants in CE. The problemn seems to be a terminological one: perhaps some people take "CE" to mean...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 9, 2001 6:30 pm
... Suggestion: A mapa maanya, tye-tulyuvan, noorenna ingoleo, yasse olorilwar yeevar anwe, ar euvalwe oneuna, ar tercuinuvalwe cuilelwar. O take/grasp my...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Jan 9, 2001 6:43 pm
... Looks great to me ^_^ Hantale, Eruanno _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at...
4074
WolfProtector
wolfprotector@...
Jan 9, 2001 7:13 pm
I've searched all places I can think of on the net and I cant find a comperative form for adjectives (i.e. more beautiful). I've found "anvanya", that should...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 9, 2001 9:40 pm
... Way to tired to dig out my copy of WJ, but isn't _de/le_ mentioned as the orgin of the _-l_ ending, seen in _hecal!_ "begone", direct to several people? If...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 9, 2001 9:57 pm
... Just one question Helge; why that hyphen in line 2? Is it based on forms like _tye-meláne_ "thee I love" in LR? I'd expected something like _tulyuva tye_....
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 9, 2001 11:11 pm
... Actuall, Lucas, _sinda_ have an side-form _sinde_ (that some think is the more normal form when not used as noun =Grey-elf), which'd pluralize as _sindi_. ...
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
Jan 9, 2001 11:23 pm
... hm.. amvanya maybe??? :))) ... this is one of the biggest problems in quenya, no comperative type is known!!! the only solution so far is using the word...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jan 10, 2001 9:29 am
... Sorry, that is quite an obvious meaning, it was my fault I did not make it out... Lukas...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jan 10, 2001 9:29 am
... -enyelye would be only the ending of the verb. ... "olos" must be in genitive or possessive, and "noore" in allative - thus "noorenna olorwa" or "noorenna...
