Re: Grandsire's Fluency wish-list
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 21, 2000, 18:53 |
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Jonathan Chang wrote:
> LOL (Laughing Out Loud)... easier to understand Americanish? I dunno what
> that says about the American mutation of English, but it's amusing in its
> implications.
Presumably nothing more than that he's heard more American English than
English English.
> Sindarin? What's that? Looks like a rhyme with Mandarin.
One of Tolkien's languages, Welsh-influenced, if memory serves. Quenya
is another of his langs, the ancestor of Sindarin, I think?
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