Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin

--- Tristan Alexander McLeay froge sionk:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Almaran Dungeonmaster wrote:
>
> > Adam Walker wrote:
> >
> > > >Maarten (who does have neither pointy ears nor a battle axe
> and a beard)
> > >
> > > LOL Don't worry.  No one here thought you did.  But *whispered
> > > aside* I know  some one here who's got pointy ears and a tail!
> >
> > Just to make sure: It was not my intention to insult any elves
> dwarven or
> > other membes of non-human species subscribed to this list. I have
> no problem
> > whatsoever with elves or dwarves, and I wouldn't mind being one
> myself. So I
> > am in no way prejudiced against elves or dwarves (except for the
> fact that I
> > am convinced that all elves have pointy ears and all dwarves have
> beards and
> > carry a battle axe around). But as a matter of the fact, I am elf
> nor dwarf.
>
> The plural of `dwarf' is correctly `dwarfs', Tolkien was weird in
> Lotr.
well i dunno about tolkien but all the books i've ever read have used
dwarves... mayhap both are correct?... or frequent usage of whichever
one was 'incorrect' has made both acceptable...?

...nicole, who has a lovely drawing of a blue elf on her refrigerator
and wonders if she'll ever get around to creating a conlang for the
world of bluestone...

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