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...
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G Hart
GH115@...
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...
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J-d Geier
joshmcree@...
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...
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Matijas // fia noamal...
hiasl@...
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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B.Philip.Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 22, 1998 11:55 pm
At 19:23 -0600 on 19.10.1998, Dorothea Salo wrote: [snip] ... Also it takes more time to write in a foreign language, even if you master it well enough to do...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
Oct 23, 1998 11:03 pm
... **ok, I give up. What are you talking about? Is there a translator somewhere? What is the URL, or do you have a bit of software? I have often suspected...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Oct 23, 1998 11:03 pm
... This seems an excellent notion to me. I'll adopt it; it *would* simplify things considerably for the translators. Here are the languages which are covered...
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Felipe Aichele
faichele@...
Oct 24, 1998 3:49 pm
Does anyone know about a native speaker of Quenya? That is, someone that learned it since their childhood? My younger sister is going to have a child next...
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Matijas // fia noamal...
hiasl@...
Oct 24, 1998 5:51 pm
... Traduko de la demando : La aliaj familanoj parolas al li kastile . ^Cu mi sukcesos ? ... If this is true what they wrote about denaskaj esperantistoj you...
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B.Philip.Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 25, 1998 2:46 am
... [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] Agree most emphatically! ... It seems to me that roots of the structure !~NGURUTH, !BALAD would have been structurally OK, so...
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E W Beattie
edward.beattie@...
Oct 25, 1998 2:46 am
... child next year. We all live in the same house, so I'll be in close daily contact with him. I wondered what would happen if I talk to him only in Quenya....
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Intyalin@...
Oct 25, 1998 2:46 am
In a message dated 98-10-24 11:49:42 EDT, you write: << My younger sister is going to have a child next year. We all live in the same house, so I'll be in...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Oct 25, 1998 5:04 am
... That's probably part of it, but I guess that the desire to expand the number of possible words that could be created from a given root also figured: BAL...
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Felipe Aichele
faichele@...
Oct 25, 1998 5:59 pm
... I'm not thinking in experimenting with him at all. That would be horrible! I just want to give him a different "tool" for thinking. By seeing the...
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Yuriy
nadja@...
Oct 26, 1998 12:48 pm
... There'll be square dozen of problems. If your native language is from the Roman-Germanic group so the difference between it and Qenya will be very, very......
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Minya1@...
Oct 26, 1998 12:48 pm
In a message dated 98-10-24 22:46:04 EDT, B.Philip. Jonsson wrote: << > TRK TARAK 'root' Any voters for using this to mean 'root of a plant' whereas SUND would...
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Intyalin@...
Oct 26, 1998 12:48 pm
Felipe Aichele: " I'm not thinking in experimenting with him at all. That would be horrible! I just want to give him a different "tool" for thinking. By seeing...
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B. Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 26, 1998 12:48 pm
... [snip] ... Agree. I entertained similar ideas when we were expecting my now >7-months old son. Luckily a fellow Buddhist Netfriend pointed out the...
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B. Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Oct 26, 1998 12:48 pm
[Please forebear lousy orthography and capitalization; I'm writing away from home on a right-handed keyboard //Ugh! :(] ... I didn't think of that aspect at...
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J-d Geier
joshmcree@...
Oct 27, 1998 12:24 am
... <HR> <HTML> <BODY> <PRE> ... **ok, I give up. What are you talking about? Is there a translator somewhere? What is the URL, or do you have a bit of ...
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psmc@...
Oct 27, 1998 1:09 am
Ar Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:12:36 -0400, scríobh tú: Even if Felipe were to speak exclusively Quenya to the child, this would not have any detrimental effect on...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Oct 27, 1998 1:12 pm
... I think you must be right about *WAL > Gmc waldan; some form of this was, I think, borrowed into Finnish as _valta_. Given his use of kulta and rauta, I...
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Felipe Aichele
faichele@...
Oct 28, 1998 9:22 pm
... That means, it will have little or none effect at all. ... I agree: a friend of mine lived his two first years in Germany, and he talked only in German. At...
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psmc@...
Nov 2, 1998 12:39 am
... Not so. The infant's mind is geared to learn language. And they can learn several at once. If it learns two or three languages from infancy which one is...
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MISS AMY V CHAPMAN
MUJR73C@...
Nov 2, 1998 1:01 pm
... from ... be ... difficulty ... What does <predicate+nominative+compl.> mean? Can you give me an English example? Amy ...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
Nov 4, 1998 2:47 pm
I don't know who else is in the Washington, DC area, but Steven Pinker will be speaking at Mazur Auditorium, Bldg 10 on the Main Campus of the National...
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Yuriy
nadja@...
Nov 4, 1998 2:47 pm
... Of course, they CAN. The infant's mind has great ability to remember near all, but his/her analysing abilities can be not so good. And two-three langs can...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
Nov 5, 1998 12:59 am
... Yes, the child may think they are synonyms at first -- just like children often refer to all animals by the name of one species. For example, my...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Nov 14, 1998 4:09 pm
In a Very Small Footnote to Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote "In Quenya in which _a_ was very frequent, its vowel sign was often...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Nov 18, 1998 2:17 pm
Elfling now has over 100 members! Beyond my wildest imaginings. Thanks for joining, all. I'd like to invite Elfling members whose first language is not English...
