Re: CHAT: Hello

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Tim Judge, Erion Telepalda wrote:

>       Hi I just signed on to this list, and after lurking for a very short
> time (less then a day) I have decided to introduce myself. I am still in
> high school and study french as my language (although my teacher is horrible
> and I know more tlhinganHol then French despite the fact that I studied it
> for about 5 months three years ago).
>       I recently got interested in conlangs after finishing "the Hobbit",
> "the Lord of the Rings", and "the Silmarilion" (which should be simply
> Silmarilion). I was interested in the Eldarin tongues, which started me on
> making my own language; Bírhrhalin. It is a language that uses English for
> it's base language, however it is spoken on another planet about 4,000 years
> in the future so it turns out to be more of a priori then anything else. I
> am still working on the grammar and most of all the lexicon.
>
> PS: "Erion Telepalda" is Quenya and if you can translate it then you should
> probably know that I was deppressed when I came up with it. He was the
> speaker in an attempt and a poem in Quenya, but I liked the sound of it and
> used it as a character name in an RPG so I added it to my name.
Francais ne me plais.  Je pense qu'elle est -- shit, how do you say
"ugly"?  Eh, nevermind.  Tried to pick up French for my Ph.D., decided to
become a medievalist in earnest, switched to Latin.

I like the sound of your language, what little bit I hear.  Got a sample?
I could go for a translation exercise, if it's short.  :)  I like your
daring of using English roots.

Oh, incidently, I *almost* have Midd Englisc done, by which I mean I have
tentative declensions, articles, and pronouns.

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