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Post by Belgarath on Jul 28, 2004 11:21:07 GMT -5
Well since our good friend pinata here can speak Elvish...Here is the place where you will post something and he will translate it...Right pinata?
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Post by piñata on Jul 29, 2004 8:05:15 GMT -5
Right. Unless it's something REALLY obscure that I don't know and have no way to look up, I can translate stuff here.
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Post by Elfie on Jul 29, 2004 8:25:13 GMT -5
Can you do names?
I know someone who speaks Elvish, and I want to greet them.
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Post by piñata on Jul 29, 2004 8:55:11 GMT -5
Well, the traditional greeting is mae govannen ("well met"). I'm pretty sure the "ae" is pronounced like "eye", and I know for sure that double-consonants (the "nn" in govannen) are emphasised as long (so it's actually pronounced "govannnnen", or something similar, but the n's are very long). And I can do names -- in fact, your SN would be Edhelwe ("elf person") in Quenya. There's a ".." thingy over the last e, but I forgot how to do that so I left it plain.
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Post by eldae on Jul 29, 2004 17:54:15 GMT -5
I'll help with the alvish... and just by the way, the dh in Edhelwë is pronounced with a th
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Post by piñata on Jul 30, 2004 7:34:55 GMT -5
I wasn't sure how he'd react to that information, because it makes it a bit close to "Ethel". Actually, though, I think it's pronounced as if it had two Ls -- "Ethell". I can't help on the wë part, though -- I always though it might be like "way", but I'm not sure. Anyway, you can use it on Nation States now as the name of Ragbralbur's national leader.
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Post by Elfie on Jul 30, 2004 13:43:53 GMT -5
What syllables do I accent?
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Post by Belgarath on Aug 9, 2004 21:45:12 GMT -5
Pinata darling, how do I say Fear in Elvish?
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Post by piñata on Aug 10, 2004 9:03:35 GMT -5
Caurë. I have no idea how to pronounce it -- the site I got it from didn't tell me. I'm going to try and find an Elvish pronunciation guide on Google sometime this week.
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Post by Belgarath on Aug 10, 2004 20:41:05 GMT -5
Thankee ;D
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Post by Aiden on Sept 29, 2004 13:32:58 GMT -5
oooo I wanna know what my name would be if its possible ;D hehehe.......sorry, as you can tell, I'm insane
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Post by piñata on Sept 29, 2004 17:15:17 GMT -5
Well then, you'll fit right in here. About the name, I have no idea how to do it myself, but there's a generator here that I think comes close to an actual translation sometimes... it's where I got my Elvish name, Olwë.
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Post by Aiden on Sept 30, 2004 8:46:46 GMT -5
ok cool...I'll tell you what mine is later then.
Enelya Lossëhelin hahaha, that's cool!
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Post by piñata on Sept 30, 2004 9:15:29 GMT -5
Yeah... that name is kind of pretty. I know someone whose SN is Enelya, but I can't seem to be able to get her to join here.
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Post by Aiden on Oct 2, 2004 23:15:36 GMT -5
hmmmm.... I don't know what to tell ya about that. Threaten her with something really stupid hahaha.
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