There is what looks like a misprint in "The _Entu_, _Ensi_, _Enta_ Declension. A Preliminary Analysis" by Christopher Gilson with an Introduction by Carl F....
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jan 28, 2004 4:02 am
It is my great pleasure to announce that Patrick H. Wynne has accepted my invitation to serve as co-editor of _Tengwestie_. I'm sure that all members of this...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jan 24, 2004 5:39 pm
I have made a number of revisions to my article my article on "The Past-Tense Verb in the Noldorin of the Etymologies" in _Tengwestië_ ...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 24, 2004 1:58 pm
There are two points in the recently published (and very interesting) Parma Eldalamberon #14 where I think that the text is misspelt. In the note 1 of page 60...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jan 22, 2004 11:59 pm
Hello, In an exhaustive study published in _Tengwestie_, the online journal of the ELF (http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/articles/Hostetter/noldpat.phtml), ...
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Tchitrec@...
tchitrec
Jan 19, 2004 4:42 pm
In an insightful message posted on July 5th 2003, n° 459, (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/459), Pavel Iosad argues for the existence of...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 15, 2004 1:15 am
... **Personally, I do not find it extraordinary or even odd. Quenya, though undoubtedly an artistic creation, is a language. One of the major characteristics...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 13, 2004 11:32 pm
... I think you are right in saying that Tolkien wrote the prayers in his "mature" years, but not in the sense that you mean. It is clearly noticeable that...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil
Jan 13, 2004 9:00 pm
Aiya! Sunday, January 11, 2004, 11:25:39 PM, Boris Shapiro wrote: I raised a question of whether Tolkien's Catholic prayers in Quenya were meant to be a piece...
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laurifindil
Jan 13, 2004 7:04 pm
I was surprised not to see any correction for Ambaroone in Ety:348, in Vinyar Tengwar 45. It always looked to me a as typo for Ambaroona. Hammond in his...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil
Jan 12, 2004 12:32 pm
Aiya! Has anyone mused on the internal historical position of the prayers published in VT43-44? From what examples of Tolkien's Quenya I have seen, I gather...
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mach
machhezan
Jan 12, 2004 3:51 am
Thanks to Ales Bican, I see now that we can't know the phonetic nature of the original sound of óre. My supposition that it'd be an approximant _r_ like in...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jan 11, 2004 2:01 pm
On 11.01.2004, at 06:20, Arden R. Smith wrote: A.R.Smith says that William G. Moulton says in his _The Sounds of English and German_ (Chicago and London:...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 11, 2004 1:31 pm
... That, or pronunciation varies from speaker to speaker and/or location to location. It's the kind of minor phonetic variation one expect to see abundantly...
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Arden R. Smith
erilaz7
Jan 11, 2004 5:34 am
... Then there's disagreement among phoneticians as to what sound the initial segment of _hue_ really is. I've already mentioned Pullum and Ladusaw's...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 10, 2004 12:07 am
... **I did not claim that Tolkien's term "dental" was not trustful or appropriate, because yes, all there sounds are dentals in a _wider_ sense. However, if...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 10, 2004 12:04 am
I mentioned that Tolkien's description in App. E of Quenya _hy_ may be two-fold: it may be either an approximant or fricative ... **As j. 'mach' wust already...
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mach
machhezan
Jan 8, 2004 12:17 pm
Ales Bican wrote that we can't decide whether <hy> is a voiceless palatal fricative or a voiceless palatal approximant. Arden R. Smith replied he couldn't seen...
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mach
machhezan
Jan 8, 2004 12:17 pm
Helios thinks _óre_ originally represented an approximant, Ales Bican thinks it originally represented a tap. Ales Bican's answer to Helios' argument that...
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Arden R. Smith
erilaz7
Jan 8, 2004 4:15 am
... Really? I see no examples of a voiceless palatal approximant there. In fact, the examples given in Tolkien's description of Quenya _hy_ in Appendix E are...
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Emanuele Vicentini
emanuelevice...
Jan 8, 2004 3:01 am
Greetings, ... Well, the difference between these two concepts has always bothered me. If I understand it (which I doubt) _penknife_ would have a geminate "n"...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 7, 2004 11:58 am
... With "geminate"; I wanted to mark (opposite to just "long") that the sound is split between two syllables. At least that is the meaning suggested by the...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 7, 2004 11:58 am
... I never said it was a _good_ explanation, but if it has any validity, surely the consonant dropped at the 'gh' stage, and 'gh' is nearer to 'u' than to...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jan 7, 2004 12:41 am
... I can think of 2 possible motivations: analogy, or getting the pronunciation nearer to the preceding dental/alveolar _r_ (_l_). Together with the attempt...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jan 7, 2004 12:37 am
... I rather agree - I did not mean to imply where exactly the syllable boundary lies. ... Yes, but it seems that Q phonology avoids _w_ and _y_ glides ...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Jan 6, 2004 11:05 pm
... In Swedish, the common pronunciation of _hj_ and _hv_ (very few dialects apart) has for centuries been _j_ ("y" in French/Spanish/English) and _v_, but...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 6, 2004 10:56 pm
... What is the difference between a long and a geminate trill? Andreas...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 6, 2004 10:54 pm
To my note that Tolkien was not always accurate in App. E, e.g. when he stated that Quenya _h_ was pronounced as _h_ in English 'house' (pronounced with a...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 6, 2004 10:48 pm
I wrote that my opinion was that by 'untrilled' _r_ Tolkien had meant a tap/flap (occurring in Spanish) and not an approximant (occurring in English). ... ...
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Edouard Kloczko
laurifindil
Jan 6, 2004 10:37 pm
That idea, that a special dialect of Quenya was spoken in T.A., is in my opinion false. Tolkien never wrote "Third Age Quenya" in Appendix E (or F). What he...
