... In later Greek, "th" changed to the spirant heard in think though. Since Quenya th>s also is derived from a t+h sound (an aspirate), I'd prefer something...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 2, 1999 1:03 am
... This is an irritiating thing. I've been through ten years of Swedish School, and to this date I have not been teatched ANYTHING on phonology or linguistics...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
May 2, 1999 1:03 am
... [snip] ... There is a general trend of linition among the languages of the world. Sounds tend to "weaken" along what is called the sonority heirarchy....
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npoignet@...
May 2, 1999 1:03 am
Hi there ! It's been some time since I started researching on Quenya, the latter being closely related to some kind of professional "memoire" I have to write...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
May 2, 1999 1:03 am
Jan McCoy <leonita79@...> wrote in elfling-return-569 ... Cindy does not mean Moon, see messages 571 and 572. Also Moon is Isil or Ithil in Quenya, not...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 2, 1999 1:03 am
... Of course, Irish "F" is pronunced [v]. ... This do not only occure for B and V. T has a tendency to become "th" (as in thing) or "s". K has a tendency to...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
May 2, 1999 1:30 am
If you've noticed that the "links" function on the website isn't working, you're not alone. I reported the problem, and eGroups tells me they are working on...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
May 2, 1999 11:22 pm
... I'd thought of that, too, but rejected it because Artemis was no one's spouse. ... IANAC (I am not a classicist), but IIRC that was true of the Greeks too:...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 2, 1999 11:22 pm
Vicentini Emanuele wrote [quoting me] ... I was thinking of a case where (as in Latin) a consonant+r was considered as a single consonant for purposes of...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
May 2, 1999 11:34 pm
... Wouldn't the most sensible Eldarinization be either a feminine form of Tilion, i.e. _Tilien_ or _Tiliel_ or something like Q. _Isilwende_ S. _Ithilwen_,...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
May 3, 1999 10:29 am
Your friendly but occasionally obtuse moderator here, admitting a screwup... eGroups apparently doesn't like it when I approve messages both by email and by...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
May 3, 1999 10:26 pm
Aiya! [skipped] ... rather easy to find >similarities between written Hebrew and the tengwar. For example, the vowels are >represented by small signs added...
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bican@...
May 3, 1999 10:26 pm
Thanks for answers I've received, but I'm little bit confused. So how can I finally render "Cindy" to Quenya? And what does it mean? I've thought of _Tilien_,...
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Gernot Katzer
katzer@...
May 3, 1999 10:26 pm
... I find more similarities between Tengwar and Devanagari script, which is used to codify Sanskrit, Pali, modern Hindi, Nepali and Marathi. First, devanagari...
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Jevnijs erihovis
jevgen@...
May 3, 1999 10:26 pm
Date: piektdiena, 1999. gada 30. aprÏlis 14:39 Subject: [elfling] "B" -> "V" Hi. ... But more vivid example is spelling of Spanish V as [be]. ... Possible...
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Raymond A. Brown
raybrown@...
May 3, 1999 10:26 pm
[A TYPO] At 12:30 pm -0700 30/4/99, Andreas Johansson wrote: [...] ... I assume 'Irish' is a typo for 'Welsh'! Indeed, in the modern Welsh orthography "F" is...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
May 3, 1999 10:27 pm
Hello, ... What's the relation between the monster[s?] in Tolkien's stories and the construction of an imaginary language such as Quenya ? I'm afraid I don't...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 3, 1999 10:27 pm
... Except for in compunds, where the syllable-bounds from the original words are left intact, aren't syllable-bounds very much a function of the sequence of...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 3, 1999 10:27 pm
... This can also be seen in some indian (Asian Indians, not american ones) alphabethes. And the tendency to see vowels as less important than consonants a...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 5, 1999 1:14 am
... It's not entirely true that the indoeuropean languages lack the retroflexes. In most Swedes' (including mine) pronunciation /rt/ /rd/ /rs/ /rn/ and ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 5, 1999 1:14 am
... Yes, I meant Welsh. Andreas ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/group/elfling http://www.eGroups.com - Simplifying group communications...
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Vicentini Emanuele
vicentin@...
May 5, 1999 1:14 am
... Well, my questions started from the fact that sometime I didn't know how to break Quenya/Sindarin words int syllabes and so I was in trouble trying to put...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
May 5, 1999 1:14 am
... Actually, papyrus was very expensive because it was labor-intensive to make: the stalks had to be laid out by hand and two crossed plies and then beaten to...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
May 5, 1999 1:14 am
... No, in Latin V and B were distinct. There was a Latin saying, "apud Hispanicos vivere est bibere," "among the Spanish 'to live' is 'to drink'". In any case...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
May 5, 1999 1:14 am
Aiya! ... today. Uh, I see. BTW, again: Byzantium -> Vizamtija :) ... But the general rule for translation 'th' to Russian is to make it "t": 'Nazareth' ->...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
May 5, 1999 1:15 am
Aiya! [skipped] ... rather easy to find >similarities between written Hebrew and the tengwar. For example, the vowels are >represented by small signs added...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
May 5, 1999 1:15 am
Aiya! Is there anything else known about the Rumil's letters except the "TPF" in Vinyar Tengwar? Namaarie! S.Y., Elenhil Laiquendo ... eGroup home:...
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lindael
lindael@...
May 5, 1999 1:16 am
Je cherche quelqun qui pourrait me traduire et m'écrire en Quenya Unis pour toujours ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/group/elfling ...
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MARCUS ANTHONY SMITH
smithma@...
May 5, 1999 10:39 pm
[sorry, this is going to be a bit off topic] ... In the purely phonetic terms you are speaking about, many languages have them. In my own pronunciation of...
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Raymond A. Brown
raybrown@...
May 5, 1999 10:39 pm
At 11:15 am +0400 4/5/99, Boris Shapiro wrote: ... Yes, this is certainly so of more recent borrowings, e.g. 'teorija' (theory), 'termometr', 'tezis' (thesis)...
