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9820 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@... Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
8:20 am
teithant David Kiltz ... * about the latest TyTy i guess.. at least that is how i have been informed in a recent post ... Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå...
9821 Irene A Gates
112321.3163@... Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
9:33 am
... the ... understand ... created ... Yes! I only missed one word! <pats self on back> ... Eh ... might ... But please do keep on writing in Portuguese (with...
9822 Kai MacTane
kmactane Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
10:12 am
... My "expertise&quot; is *quite* limited, as I've proven admirably with some of my other statements on this list. However, I'll try to take a stab at a couple ......
9823 Kai MacTane
kmactane Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
10:12 am
... I'm in the same boat -- some Spanish, and Portuguese looks tantalizingly almost-comprehensible to me. I also have no objection to Portuguese messages with...
9824 Kai MacTane
kmactane Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
10:27 am
... Yeah, in Spanish, nearly any word that ends in _-cion_ (roughly equivalent to English/Latin "-tion" or "-sion", as in formation or confusion) has the ...
9825 Thomas Dr.
percival64 Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
10:50 am
Aiya, I would like to ask for your help to clear a confusion. Helge's Quenya Course (lesson 14) lists -lma as an inclusive, and -mma as an exclusive possessive...
9826 Priscila Albuquerque ...
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Feb 1, 2002
10:57 am
... - Well, at least you have a quite near pronounciation of the Quenya diphthong _ui_ in the English word _ruin_. That´s the best example in English that I...
9827 Priscila Albuquerque ...
prihetzel@... Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
11:28 am
... - Bem, Augusto, perdoe-me se eu não traduzi a mensagem. Realmente foi um erro estúpido e prometo não cometê-lo novamente. Bem, Irene, não se preocupe....
9828 Brett Thorn
brettthorn Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
11:36 am
Teithant Gildor Inglorion Thanks again for your help. Would you, or anyone else who cares to, be kind enough to check my transcription of: Herinya, vanya ve...
9829 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@... Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
11:42 am
teithant Brett Thorn ... * what did i write? ... double dot (for Y) under the L, so I put it in the centre. Is this correct? * very nice.. but the tehtar must...
9830 Andreas Johansson
and_yo Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
1:16 pm
... Allowing for that Tolkien's ideas frequently shifted, Helge Fauskanger&#39;s course is generally more reliable than Anthony Appleyard's somewhat date "Quenya...
9831 almie_elenwe Send Email Feb 1, 2002
3:05 pm
... Quenya ... might find. ... <snipping a previous post> ... I ... _minna_ and _mir_ are optional forms of the preposition "into". After them, no additional...
9832 Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
10:07 pm
... They both are. ... - inclusive in an early draft of _The Lord of the Rings_: _Eleni silir lúmesse omentiemman_ 'The stars shine on the hour of our meeting...
9833 Sandra Chun
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Feb 1, 2002
10:07 pm
hello, does anyone happen to know what kind of leaf the brooch on the elven cloaks in the movie was supposed to be? ===== Love, Sandy (KTBSPA!!!!!) "Elen si la...
9834 sheerfantasy9669@... Send Email Feb 1, 2002
10:07 pm
I've been an Elves fan for a long time, Since I read LotR I have enjoyed the Elves world. I wasn't so sure about the language at first because I had only read...
9835 eldin_of_cuivieenen
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Feb 1, 2002
10:09 pm
... would be ... Agreed, but do note that it is the external evolution, not the internal one. Eddin Najetovic enajetovic@......
9836 eldin_of_cuivieenen
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
10:13 pm
... to learn ... _does_ exist ... long, rich, ... Point taken and noted ... Silmarillion_ and ... Tolkien ... selected data, ... not only ... I don't think so....
9837 eldin_of_cuivieenen
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Feb 1, 2002
10:24 pm
... I have never heard of Siquilisse. Probably Qenya (as opposed to Quenya) ... Wouldn't that be _tasar_? Just ... okie ... Drop the allative and turn _minna_...
9838 eldin_of_cuivieenen
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Feb 1, 2002
10:30 pm
... seems the ... Both forms (tasar and tasare) are allowed. ... the article can be left out, yes. But mir has the allative case already, don't use -nna if...
9839 Gildor Inglorion
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Feb 1, 2002
11:00 pm
teithant sheerfantasy9669@... ... like others (Spanish, French)? * yes ... * i am afraid not ... that there is an actual course in Quenya, is there one...
9840 sheerfantasy9669@... Send Email Feb 2, 2002
2:01 am
Ah, okay. Is Quenya very similar to Sindarin? Thank you for reply by the way :)...
9841 slr_sunweaver Send Email Feb 2, 2002
2:02 am
I have liked fantasy writing for quite some time, and am interested in learning languages such as Elvish. It was originally intended for just one thing, but...
9842 Frances Hardy
gilraenh Send Email
Feb 2, 2002
2:02 am
... ;P What a difficult word :-) luckly I have my Dutch aunty staying! ^^^^^^^...
9843 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Feb 2, 2002
2:06 am
... correct structure for the phrase "there is... there are..."; i.e., how should I translate a sentence like "There is a house under the big tree."? ... I...
9844 Gildor Inglorion
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Feb 2, 2002
2:06 am
teithant sheerfantasy9669@... ... Is Quenya very similar to Sindarin? Thank you for reply by the way :) * well if you can find the similarities between...
9845 Frances Hardy
gilraenh Send Email
Feb 2, 2002
3:17 am
This may send twice, sorry if it does. Here is the URL for a site with all the elvish and other language lines from the movie. ...
9846 Martin Blom
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Feb 2, 2002
10:13 am
... In what sense is _as_ attested for "with"? Is it like "together with"? If it is then I wouldn't use it here since the instrumental case seems more...
9847 D. Daniel Andriës
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Feb 2, 2002
1:27 pm
... Agreed. Sort of like saying 'To truly learn English, studying Anglo-Saxon is not only "right", it is a necessary first step.' That, of course, is false. ...
9848 Kassandra Velez
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Feb 2, 2002
4:15 pm
... There is much in Sindarin that will look more than slightly familiar if you've dipped into Quenya, but the grammar of the two languages is quite different...
9849 Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil Send Email
Feb 2, 2002
4:18 pm
I would also like to point out that the repeated statements that _-lve_/_-lwe_ is dual is yet another example of a received fact that Helge has fabricated...
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