Suilad! Attention! The Elvish Linguistic Calendar has its second corrected edition. Now you can see all the Fëanorian numerals with their Arabic counterparts....
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Aug 20, 2001 6:27 pm
whenever i open either the addenda or the calendar, acrobat warns me that a certain font wasnt found (sorry but i dont remember its name) does anyone else have...
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galadhorn@...
Aug 20, 2001 7:23 pm
... Does it mean you cannot open the file? The problematic font can be Dauphin. I am very sorry: I will correct this. Galadhorn...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn@...
Aug 20, 2001 7:30 pm
I have just sent the corrected version of the "Sindarin Dictionary: Addenda". Maybe this will be better? Cuio mae, Ryszard Derdzinski (Galadhorn) ...
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Lola Lee
lola@...
Aug 20, 2001 7:32 pm
... The problem font is actually Erie. On the very last page of the calendar, at the bottom - the text right after "Katowice 2001" and before the copyright...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Aug 20, 2001 9:04 pm
... Is not the "original"; form of the article here "in" - since it is plural? Like "Ernil i-Pherianath"<"Ernil in Perianath"? But I may be talking nonsense, I...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Aug 21, 2001 3:28 am
... Thanks for your feedback. As for writing technical articles in English, I am afraid I am not fluent enough (it's a hard effort, even for such a small post...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Aug 21, 2001 3:45 am
... No, it can't be so. I just occured to forget (amongst other sentences) "A Hîr Annûn gilthoniel" from LR:354. Clearly a vocative construct, and showing no...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Aug 21, 2001 8:16 am
Aiya! Tuesday, August 14, 2001, 5:14:53 AM, you wrote: afff> In PPQ I've seen the verb *tyulta "to stand", but I wandered if afff> this verb should not rather...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn@...
Aug 21, 2001 10:18 am
Ai! Dear Friends, today I have received two Movie Sindarin (I call the Sindarin in the movie 'Movie Sindarin' [or 'mS']) pieces from Patrick aka Gorel who made...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Aug 21, 2001 10:42 am
... Note though, that mutations in Celtic languages have their origin in the fact that the end of the preceding word and the beginning of the next were spoken...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad@...
Aug 21, 2001 11:05 am
Suilad, ... This is a great book, but, sadly, of little avail for Sindarin studies, for it focuses on modern spoken Welsh, which was _not_ the basis of ...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad@...
Aug 21, 2001 11:08 am
Suilad, (G)Aladhorn :-) ... Nope. The relative pronoun in this case is actually _in_ and not _i_. If it were "Land of the Dead who Lives", I would subscribe to...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Aug 21, 2001 11:59 am
... hey even *I* can speak better Sindarin than her :PPPP j/k... the sound file is too difficult, and i have attained only English listening classes and...
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Lola Lee
lola@...
Aug 21, 2001 12:44 pm
Reading the Washington Post this morning while on the metro train, I came across this interesting article. Fortunately, it is also on the web at the...
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D. Daniel Andriës
uialdil@...
Aug 21, 2001 2:17 pm
... There is also no lenition in "Ai na vedui Dúnadan", and 'Dúnadan' is in the vocative case. Strangely, in the corpus most of the nouns in the vocative ...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Aug 21, 2001 8:20 pm
... Quite true. However, the modes I referred to were hardly ever associated with Eregion in particular; and I have a hard time imagining how the writing...
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Eleder
josugp@...
Aug 22, 2001 1:28 am
... Perhaps the specific of Eregion was the "caligraphy", the actual mode of writing the tengwar... called "Tengwar Cursive" by Harri Perälä. Eleder "Si...
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John Cowan
cowan@...
Aug 22, 2001 2:11 am
... That would be "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly"? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@... Please leave your...
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David Chapman
varie_undomiel@...
Aug 22, 2001 9:25 am
Eleder wrote; ... Indeed, this calligraphy would certainly lend itself to the intricate works and devices created by the smiths of Eregion. David Chapman ...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Aug 22, 2001 4:50 pm
the word goloth from VT#42 is the equivalent of the previously known word gwaloth... i look to some wordlists and found that PQ wo- beacames either gwa- or...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn@...
Aug 22, 2001 9:15 pm
Suilad! The discussion about Welsh can be a very good beginning of the deeper Sindarin research. I would like to see Pavel Iosad's "Are Grey Elves P-Celtic?"...
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John Cowan
jcowan@...
Aug 22, 2001 9:40 pm
... This is certainly plausible. ... JRRT explicitly allows this pronunciation (and is silent about other possibilities) in the Appendix. -- Not to perambulate...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Aug 23, 2001 5:59 am
... AFAIK Tolkien says that stressed *wo- > gwa-, unstressed > go. _go-_ being more frequent we can -I think- expect a lot of analogical levelling. Again...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Aug 23, 2001 6:03 am
... AFAIK MWelsh "ae", "oe" are generally described as a/o+ "low i". "Low i" being a sound like "i" in English, but with the tongue not going up the full way...
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D. Daniel Andriës
uialdil@...
Aug 23, 2001 6:39 am
... I would say probable. The other Sindarin diphthongs are made by combining the vowel phonemes represented in the spelling; I see no reason for 'ae' and 'oe'...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad@...
Aug 23, 2001 1:16 pm
... Yes, in the Northern pronunciation. By the way, the 'low' _i_ is higher than Russian or Polish _y_. The latter are the unrounded _ The Southern...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Aug 23, 2001 6:33 pm
I am making some updates in Quenta Eldatencelion :) I am planning to put examples for each mode... doing that, I realised that Certhas Daeron was used for Old ...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Aug 23, 2001 7:50 pm
... **It really is. And what about _Erukyerme_ and _Ekyanaaro_? Tolkien was quite a lot experimenting with his languages. ... **I saw some theories, but not...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Aug 23, 2001 7:52 pm
... **Well, I always thought that _Angainor_ is derived from _angaina_ "of iron". Seems it is not so. The Qenya Lexicon p. 34 says this: _Angayasse_ misery. ...
