Re: Grandsire's Fluency wish-list

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Very true. Also, the only British English I've ever heard is BBC English,
> which is quite a strange dialect IMHO :)) . Yet when I hear Captain
> Jean-Luc Picard in ST: TNG, I understand him quite correctly while
> Americans told me he had a British accent (that I don't understand: why
> giving him a British accent if he's supposed to be French?).
Very simple: that is Patrick Stewart's native accent.  RP English has
a fairly high status even in America, although it can also be seen
as trivial or effeminate.  Combined with a bass pitch, it sounds
villainous.  Go figure.

> >One of Tolkien's languages, Welsh-influenced, if memory serves.  Quenya
> >is another of his langs, the ancestor of Sindarin, I think?
> >
>
> Yes indeed. I think Quenya had for Quendi ("Elves") a status not far from
> that of Classical Latin or Sanskrit in their respective cultures.
Just so.  In fact, Sindarin is not a descendant of Q., but rather the
much-changed descendant of a sister language, Telerin.
In particular, Quenya is Q-Quendian, whereas Telerin and Sindarin
are P-Quendian (Q. quen = S. pen, e.g.).

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