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62 Felipe Aichele
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Oct 1, 1998
10:45 pm
... I quite agree. If "habere" wouldn't have been used in "real" everyday latin, romance languages wouldn't have that verb for "posess". Anyway, there are some...
63 Marcus Smith
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Oct 1, 1998
10:46 pm
... Perhaps I'm wrong here (if I am would someone please tell me so and _why_), but wouldn't porocelle undergo syncope to give _porcelle_? It seems to me that...
64 REPRO
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Oct 1, 1998
10:46 pm
Hello everybody, I'm a brazilian vet, 32 years old, that love all the Tolkien's world. I'm looking for news, discussions, tips, etc, about the Middle Earth. ...
65 Dorothea Salo
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Oct 2, 1998
1:20 am
... Several of them *don't* have that verb for "to possess" any longer; it's been completely de-semanticized and dumped into helping-verb position, its...
66 @{@##{@%%{ [#&@#^ /{]...
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Oct 3, 1998
4:53 pm
... How ? Mansse wande ? @%%{@##\]#\]#} /@{\[##} ? Noane tultatye ta' qettlinnar elflingo . @##^@{@##\[##} [#&/\[#{$@} [#\[{ /[}[#\[#\/|@##\@##\{@#...
67 @{@##{@%%{ [#&@#^ /{]...
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Oct 3, 1998
4:53 pm
Today I finnished a Tengwar-Editor for my font . If anyone wants to use it or make changes on it please e-mail me . The program is written for DOS and needs...
68 B.Philip.Jonsson
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Oct 3, 1998
4:53 pm
... Well, OK my Sanskrit is certainly better than my Latin, but the frequency of _habere_ is many times lower than the esse + dative construction. Moreover I...
69 Felipe Aichele
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Oct 3, 1998
4:54 pm
... Yes, there must be such Dictionary. But it should include the different versions that exist for many features. None is too right, none is too wrong. Many...
70 Felipe Aichele
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Oct 3, 1998
4:54 pm
... Yes, and Italian and Romanian use both verbs, though Tenere/A Tine is rather used for immediate possession. What happens when we have "harya", which is...
71 Lisa Star
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Oct 3, 1998
5:33 pm
... [snip] ... Elvish will ... academy, it does ... Elvish ... Tolklang ... absolute ... On this basis, I really don't think people are so far apart. ...
72 David Salo
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Oct 3, 1998
7:29 pm
... Okay, this is a good place to start -- but in my opinion, we can't finish here. Many of these words (derived from the Qenya Lexicon) simply aren't ...
73 Marcus Smith
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Oct 4, 1998
7:11 pm
... Sorry to say, I have been meaning to retract my statement on that matter but had not yet found the time in my busy schedule. I had confused two passages...
74 Edward Kloczko
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Oct 4, 1998
7:11 pm
... Tyetl is taken from "Parmaeldalamberon" 12, that is from the Qenya Lexicon, and I think that in Modern Elvish tyetl could be "modernized&quot; as tyetil. ...
75 Edward Kloczko
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Oct 4, 1998
7:12 pm
... letter ... Absolutely! ;-) ... any ... Qenya/Eldarissa is a tongue made by JRR Tolkien, so it is not just any other language. Modern Elvish is in a sense a...
76 David Salo
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Oct 5, 1998
12:11 am
... I agree, but I see that genius as manifested not only in the particular forms of individual words in his languages, but in their relationships with other...
77 Lisa Star
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Oct 5, 1998
12:11 am
... [snip] ... is ... and ... **This one I cannot offer any explanation for, though it fits with the others as far as its position in the alphabet (not the...
78 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Oct 5, 1998
12:11 am
I can agree with almost everything David Salo said about the problems with some of the "Qenya" words in TY- that Ed listed. Just a few comments. ... *kyas-; if...
79 Rich Alderson
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Oct 5, 1998
12:11 am
... Hittite does indeed have two verbal paradigms: The -mi conjugation and the -hi conjugation. The latter is a Hittite innovation, based on a reanalysis of...
81 Edward Kloczko
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Oct 5, 1998
11:05 pm
"Helge K. Fauskanger" <helge.fauskanger@...> <snip> ... - ... word ... I agree on this. <snip> ... I see that we agree here too. ... We could keep...
82 Fredrik Ström
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Oct 5, 1998
11:05 pm
... I don't quite follow you. Do you mean that _enin, emil_ may parallell German "Ich heisse x", "Du heisst x"; Icel. "eg heiti x", "thu heitir x"; &c (read...
83 Edward Kloczko
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Oct 5, 1998
11:05 pm
David Salo <dsalo@...> wrote ... is, ... I don't think that sp- gave f directely in Quenya. There was a middle stage (still preserved in "Classical...
84 Vicente Velasco
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Oct 7, 1998
6:15 pm
Aiya Meldor Eldalieeva! I guess many of you who are in the TolkLang list know about me, although I have a different e-mail address. My name is Vicente S....
85 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Oct 9, 1998
12:40 am
EJK had some interesting thoughts about the development of initial ... English think). ... possessed a grade with extended stems, both above and below the...
86 Lisa Star
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Oct 12, 1998
11:19 pm
**If you are reading this on the egroups web page, please click on the "source" button, so that the hard returns don't get lost. ... what we ... heyt in ... ...
87 MISS AMY V CHAPMAN
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Oct 14, 1998
1:37 am
Helge Fauskanger&#39;s analysis _st_>(aspirate _th_?)>spirant _th_>_s_ is borne out by the behavior of *sk- and *sp- stems IMHO. *Sk- stems yield words in h-,...
88 David Salo
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Oct 19, 1998
2:29 am
One of the really outstanding differences between Tolkien's earliest elvish languages (Qenya and Gnomish) and the later languages (Quenya and Sindarin)...
89 Dorothea Salo
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Oct 20, 1998
12:25 am
I will be out of town October 30 and 31st, returning November 1st. If you try to post during that time, don't panic; I'll get back and moderate any backlog as...
90 G Hart
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Oct 20, 1998
10:40 pm
Hello, Elflinguists. It's about time I stopped lurking and introduced myself. My name is Graham Hart. I don't expect that I'll be adding greatly to the traffic...
91 J-d Geier
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Oct 21, 1998
10:44 pm
In responce to the comment about the elvish thesurus using English aproxamates of the Quenya word there are some problems 1. they already have one whichis...
92 Matijas // fia noamal...
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Oct 21, 1998
10:44 pm
... I can just translate German , Austrian , Esperanton properly . I also disbelieve that we'll be able to propose an alternative to foreigner's English for...
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