Re: Common Orcish Article (Long) - was Re: tolkien?
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 15, 2003, 20:41 |
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On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 11:55 PM, Doug Dee wrote:
> In a message dated 12/14/2003 11:52:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
> [snip]
>> In fact, according to JRRT (perhaps Mr Heaton hasn't read the appendices
>> of
>> the LotR), there could be no 'common Orcish", or "Orkish" as JRRT spelled
>> it.
>
>
> You're being a bit too harsh on him.
Well, his completely erroneous statements about Latin annoyed me (a verb
first
language!!!). If he had to mention the language he could at least have
checked
his facts. His drivel about word order was just so much rubbish.
> Note that he's creating a language for
> orcs as they appear in Dungeons & Dragons games, not as they appear in
> Tolkien's works.
That's my other pet peeve: I just detest sub-Tolkienequism - that probably
colored my response. Maybe I should've just kept quiet - and probably
would
have done if he hadn't made such a stupid blunder with his remark about
Latin.
Ray
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