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Re: [tengscribe] How do you pronounce "lle"?

Brendan Gordon skrev:
> Quenya grammar appears to be tricky for neophytes. (Also, the suffix
> -lle would be pronounced with a long L as in Italian; the Spanish
> pronunciation is actually more like... lye!)
>
> Måns is right on. I wonder, however, if rather "lye melin" (switching
> the two words around) wouldn't work a little bit better?

_Lye melin_ is perhaps easier to pronounce. The meaning would of course
not be affected.

Yours,
Måns



Fri Jul 3, 2009 4:59 am

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I found "lle" as the translation for "you" but have no idea how to pronounce it....as in "amin mela lle" which means, I think, "I love you". thanks, Barb...
Barbara Healy
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Jul 2, 2009
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Are you sure it's 'lle', and not 'ile' or some such, using sans-serif fonts in which a lowercase L looks a LOT like a capital I? If it's two L's and an E, I'd...
Josh Griffing
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You don't. _-lle_ is a Quenya ending meaning, according to some sources, plural "you" (or "y'all", as some say nowadays). Tolkien seems to have rejected this...
Måns Björkman
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6:23 pm

Quenya grammar appears to be tricky for neophytes. (Also, the suffix -lle would be pronounced with a long L as in Italian; the Spanish pronunciation is...
Brendan Gordon
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Jul 2, 2009
9:53 pm

... _Lye melin_ is perhaps easier to pronounce. The meaning would of course not be affected. Yours, Måns...
Måns Björkman
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Jul 3, 2009
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