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Re: Family Project votes

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Thursday, August 2, 2001, 18:14
In a message dated 8/2/01 6:07:05 AM, scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

<< Oh, please; let's not.  Can we leave Tolkien behind,

here?  I didn't invent a language because I was inspired

by Tolkien.  I admired Tolkien greatly, but I was starting

on Teonaht years before I'd even heard of Lord of the

Rings.    If we call it Arda, then we're subconsciously

inclined to invent something Tolkienesque.  I think we

should depart as far as possible from the Tolkien model. >>

    Not me, since I don't even know what his languages look like.  Going back
to my old post, thinkg of "Ada" or "Ardor" instead of...what the heck does
"Arda" have to do with Tolkien?

-David

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Aidan Grey <frterminus@...>