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If your coliflower is blue you should definately see a doctor!
Quote:Mrs. Big Nose: [trying to hear Jesus' sermon on the mount] Oh, it's blessed are the MEEK! Oh, I'm glad they're getting something, they have a hell of a time.
from Life of Brian
NiwiKaiha Black Knight
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(6/25/04 6:07 pm) Reply
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We once had blue macaroni. My sister had put food coloring into the pan hehehe.
I put blue food coloring in my beer, and you get a wonderful evil scientist drink then. Green food coloring made it look like I had dipped my glass into a swamp, red made it look like blood.
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Niwi needs a new hobby... perhaps burning things?
Quote:Mrs. Big Nose: [trying to hear Jesus' sermon on the mount] Oh, it's blessed are the MEEK! Oh, I'm glad they're getting something, they have a hell of a time.
from Life of Brian
Minister Of Silly Walks
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(6/26/04 9:58 am) Reply
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That has always proved fun for me!
NiwiKaiha Black Knight
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(6/26/04 1:11 pm) Reply
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I went to my grandparents today, and as mentioned in the other forum my grandfather and I share the hobby of learning to speak and understand and associate languages. A nice thing to do, and I now have a book with the Norse mythology and the meaning of the runes. Nice, innit?
I believe that Tolkien had read the Norse mythology prior to writing anything. The language is also remarkably similar. I'm quite sure he didn't think of everything himself.
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He definately studied languages... his elvish was based on a Finnish language.
I have a friend who is studying languages at UNC. He seems to thrive on it. Chinese is his favorite.
Me, I could make 10,000 a year more if I got the hang of Spanish. I tried to date a guy from Equidor in order to find a fun way of learning... Hay Chihuahua! Still not learning it!
Quote:Mrs. Big Nose: [trying to hear Jesus' sermon on the mount] Oh, it's blessed are the MEEK! Oh, I'm glad they're getting something, they have a hell of a time.
from Life of Brian
Minister Of Silly Walks
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(6/26/04 1:49 pm) Reply
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Languages interest me only in the way of how things translate.
NiwiKaiha Black Knight
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(6/26/04 5:00 pm) Reply
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Mart130.439625, once you speak about 3 languages in a specific language group (for instance, latin, french and half of english) you can shape any fourth language in that group (spanish, italian) using a 'mother' word made from the other languages.
for instance: use.
EN: use
FR: user
LA: uti
so, spanish must be usar, which it actually is too. I used that word without ever having heard it ofr the first time. So, translations become easier once you speak more languages, you can take a shortcut to how things translate.
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yup. I was having to make up a sentence in my first spanish class... had to use the word cross.... hmmm, I always cross my t's.. dont know the word for always....hmmm highschool latin to the resuce... semper! well spanish is siempre...but WTF.
Anyway...last night I was digging into some books on Lewis and Tolkein and fantasy/imagination... and this book said that Tolkein used his interest in Welch and how it developed from Gaelic... to develop his elvish languages. And those languages are actually so complete they could be spoken today. (if its anything like Star Trek fans... it probably is already...Klingon is spoken in some circles).
Well, Tolkein said that languages developed from myth, not vise versa. whatcha think....
mrs. non-philologist trying to make do
Quote:Mrs. Big Nose: [trying to hear Jesus' sermon on the mount] Oh, it's blessed are the MEEK! Oh, I'm glad they're getting something, they have a hell of a time.
from Life of Brian
Minister Of Silly Walks
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(6/27/04 10:12 am) Reply
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Very good!
If you watch the movies of LOTR, they had to write parts of the sript in elvish. It even has a correct pronunciation. Its amazing that a person could develop such a complex (at least in the way it sounds) language just for a book.
NiwiKaiha Black Knight
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(6/27/04 1:10 pm) Reply
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Na galla siloccan legala gal'amdaurun de'Norok.
I'm making my own language for a game of AD&D. I'm basing it on 17 existing languages and my imagination. It's not that big a deal, as long as you know what words you need and have enough understanding of grammar, syntaxis and consistency of languages.
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Yeah, I'll say it again, languages are fun. And all you have said about Tolkien is true, that he used Finnish as a basis for his elven laguages and all. I it is probably spoken by some, I can actually write a little! (grins) Not completely correct, but I have an alphabet with the most usefull word-signs.
I have to join in with Mart there, not bad making your own language! How long until it's fully developped?
Namárië melon nim, alo anor na ven.
(Sindarin, in common letters though, yes, I know I'm a LotR geek)
I'm not awake today
And I'm not asleep tonight
I've got some principles
And now they'll have to fight
- Big Bang
NiwiKaiha Black Knight
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(6/27/04 3:56 pm) Reply
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mellon, not melon (but I think that's dwarvish?) means friend.
Cool, Silme!
I have no idea when it will be developed, probably hen I take the time to fully develop it. So far it's just sitting in a corner, doing nothing. I'll write more when I need more for my story.
And I have a font that I downloaded for elvish... one of them anywho... and I wrote the One Ring poem on our wrists in Henna one year... LOTR Geek move over
Quote:Mrs. Big Nose: [trying to hear Jesus' sermon on the mount] Oh, it's blessed are the MEEK! Oh, I'm glad they're getting something, they have a hell of a time.
from Life of Brian
NiwiKaiha Black Knight
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(6/27/04 7:17 pm) Reply
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schweet! did you become invisible when you had written it?
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