Re: New Site
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 8, 2003, 20:20 |
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At 10:46 8.8.2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>BP Jonsson scripsit:
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> > A dot below the tengwa.
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>Eh? That's schwa, not virama.
True, in JRRT's English modes the enderdot signifies
schwa, but in Quenya it indicates elision of a final
vowel before a word beginning in a vowel -- concep-
tually not too far removed from indicating absence
of a vowel.
/BP 8^)
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