Re: Reply to Sarah's condensed message

I actually lived in Highland Park and Eagle Rock.  I haven't the faintest
idea why I was born in Azusa, except that perhaps our pediatrician (Paul
Fleiss, whose daughter is somewhat infamous) was somehow associated with
that facility.  I've also lived in Cerritos, Corona, Hesperia, and Long
Beach; my parents divorced when I was a little bit past my third birthday &
so I got to move around.  I've also lived in McKinley and Lone Oak, Texas;
Auborn Hills, Michigan (think Pontiac Silverdome); Naugatuck, Connecticut;
and Bucyrus, Columbus, and Pickerington, Ohio.  I went to school at Stowers
in Cerritos, and then Eagle Rock Elementary, and then was home schooled in
Michigan, Connecticut, and Ohio.  Thusly I speak faster than anyone I know,
say "soda pop" to avoid creating diplomatic incidents, manage to put both
"like" AND "y'all" in a single sentence, etc.

Elves are usually snooty in my stories, I'm afraid.  At least, this
particular variety are.  They like to look down on people, specifically
humans.  For example: they eschew writing; they live so long and all that
rot that they don't *need* to write things down to remember them as a
society, and therefore anyone who has to use a physical record of anything
is automatically inferior.  Part of why I did that is so that I can make
"people who write" be a derrogatory term; a sort of play on the fact that so
many people name themselves after a word that means "word," or "speak," or
"language."  The Slavs, for instance (the word for "word" in Russian is
"slavo")  Half of why the elves reject writing is because that lets them
look down on others ^_^  Just because you're old and learned doesn't make
you wise...

There are a lot of extra "l"s in Sarah1.  It may end out being that an extra
"l" will do something different to the letter it's in front of, like make it
more pronounced or something.

And my list of irregular nouns is just based on the words that I've noticed
are often irregular, and a couple of extra ones that I've thrown in.  As I
said somewhere else, I don't know if these will be genuinely irregular or if
they'll just follow a weird rule (there are a couple of rules we had to
learn in beginning Russian that literally only apply to 12 or 13 words -- we
had to learn them in Russian 101 because all 12 or 13 words are so commonly
used)  There will obviously be groups of nouns that fall under various
spelling rules, but I don't want to list those by English translation at
this point (mostly because with the exception of perfective/imperfective
variations, a list by English translation of the different Russian spelling
rules groups doesn't make any sense... they're just different, there's no
exceptional reason why some words are "at'" and others are "it'")

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
lloannna@surfside.net
http://lloannna.blogspot.com
http://www.geocities.com/lloannna.geo

"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even
though the end may be dark."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Sally Caves
> Smirk!  For some reason, this last phrase really tickled me!  Are elves
> snooty, too? <G>
>

>
> So, -ealn?  Why the "l"?  Why not just "-ean"?
> Why these words in particular?  (I'm asking these questions not
> having read
> through all of the other questions posed by other participants.  Sorry!)
> These would all seem to fit into one category of noun:
> family/hearth words.
> When I made my list of "irregular" words, I made them derive from
> a foreign
> root in Teonaht, and they were only very loosely based on semantics (words
> for spiritual/big things; words for nature/animals).  What counted for me
> was the category itself, and how the noun would be structured, how its
> plural and/or declension and/or volitional would work.  My favorite
> irregular noun is the yr/inis category:  Syr (shooting
> star--agentive, ie. a
> volitional subject), sinis (shooting star--patient or
> object/oblique case),
> syrn (shooting star--experiential or non-agentive subject).
>
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