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731
Anton, Yeah. How do you think this person wrote this in Adunaic? Here is the link: http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/arwenlament.html And here it is pasted: Ûrîn...
Clark McCray
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Jan 1, 2004
9:13 am
732
... Wild guess: By inventing words as needed, using analogies from Elvish words. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/...
Anton Sherwood
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Jan 1, 2004
5:27 pm
733
Being impatient and all, I've skipped finishing Ancient Føtisk and doing Old and Middle Føtisk before getting to the orthography of Modern Føtisk, though...
Tristan McLeay
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Jan 4, 2004
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734
... Argh! You've been withholding those for ages! I'm beginning to suspect that you'll never write them down, so as not to spoil the reputation of reductio...
Christian Thalmann
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Jan 6, 2004
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735
... It all depends (or used to depend) on the availability and price of founts of type. Caxton and the early English printers used type imported from the Low...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 6, 2004
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736
... Well... The thing is, my mind is not entirely made up on how to do everything. And, though it's so very tempting to do MnF before OF because I get to...
Tristan McLeay
kesuari
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Jan 6, 2004
3:18 am
737
... I'd say it's nothing unconventional for a minority language to have a conservative orthography. ... Yes, that sounds convincing. ... Either that, or...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 6, 2004
8:44 am
738
... Did their isolation not encourage them to make their own types? ... Oh, yes please! The ligatures I mentioned before---ae, oe, ue with dots above and ao...
Tristan McLeay
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Jan 6, 2004
9:12 am
739
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Jan van Steenbergen wrote: ... Well, I was thinking more along the availability and price of fonts, wouldn't a minority language be less...
Tristan McLeay
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Jan 6, 2004
9:56 am
740
... And sorry to be a bother, but a gj ligature (simply a connexion from the top of the g to the j in a nice-looking way) would be nice too. Not overly...
Tristan McLeay
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Jan 6, 2004
3:59 pm
741
... [snip] ... The book is early 20th century, the type is probably 19th century. The switch to Antikva was made mid 19th century in Sweden, but considerably...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 6, 2004
7:32 pm
742
Hello, all, Some of you know me from conculture and conlang; that said, down to business. I'm working on a Gothic daughter conlang, and I have at my disposal ...
Daniel Hicken
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Jan 8, 2004
2:31 pm
743
... If you would like to have the rest of the book at your disposal (as images or ORCed html): ...
Tristan McLeay
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Jan 8, 2004
2:47 pm
744
... <http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/goth_wright_about.html>. ... I now realise that I got the glossary from you! Crazy. Thanks for the weblink!...
Daniel Hicken
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Jan 8, 2004
4:24 pm
745
... Where is it supposed to be spoken? Somewhere in Spain? /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@... (delete X) ...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 9, 2004
10:28 am
746
... Actually, not 'technically' in this world at all. I'm just developping it to use in a story I'm working on...though placing it here's not a bad idea...
Daniel Hicken
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Jan 9, 2004
3:34 pm
747
I've now uploaded a file representing the pronunciation as shown in Wright's Gothic Grammar (as far as I can tell). Please visit the following weblink and...
Daniel Hicken
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Jan 9, 2004
3:36 pm
748
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the germaniconlang group. File :...
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749
What's/'re the origins of the North Germanic postponed articles (-en and -et)? And is the -s/-st from _sik_, 'self'? (And is it reflexive, as I thought and...
Tristan McLeay
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Jan 10, 2004
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750
Hello, ... Demonstratives. "Pre-runic, or I'll eat my cap and gown" (c). ... Yes. There are also theories that these forms are partly from suffixed sér as...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 10, 2004
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751
... There is _slåss_ 'fight oneanother' from _slå_ 'beat, hit, pound', which however also has a normal passive _slås_ with a single _s_. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 10, 2004
9:15 pm
752
... It's a reduced form of the demonstrative ON _hin_ (neuter _hit_). Minus the leading "h", -in and -it were the clitic forms in ON. (Source: The Germanic ...
James Campbell
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Jan 11, 2004
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753
Does anyone know of ancient Germanic units of measurement, specifically of distance? I'm intrigued to know if there was an alternative system to yards and...
James Campbell
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Jan 11, 2004
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754
... Presumably by nsalization and subsequent lowering: -in# > -i~# > -e~# > -æ~# > -a~# > -a# NB that some dialects merely denasalized -i~# > -i#, while...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 11, 2004
7:58 pm
755
Hello everybody! I have decided I would like to join Ill Bethisad to work with the Baltic and Finnic languages. Who should I contact? I have some ideas. The...
Santeri
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Feb 2, 2004
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756
... ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." ...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Feb 6, 2004
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757
Hi! I'm 15 years old and I'm planning on working on two Germanic- style languages that will be derived from my own proto-language. As soon as some books from...
Brandon
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Feb 9, 2004
7:31 pm
758
... That seems indeed a rather polite thing for me to do as well... My name is Bernard van Dulmen Krumpelman. I study Dutch language and literature in the...
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Feb 9, 2004
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759
... Welcome, both! To Bernard: I skimmed through your pages, and discovered your Adzhatian language. What a surprise; I would never have suspected that my...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Feb 11, 2004
7:34 pm
760
I tried to send these two before from the wrong sender address (guess which!:) I'm resending them in a single cover with apologies to those that get it double!...
Melroch 'Aestan
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