Re: Grandsire's Fluency wish-list
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 10:58 |
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At 14:53 21/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
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>Presumably nothing more than that he's heard more American English than
>English English.
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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?).
>> Sindarin? What's that? Looks like a rhyme with Mandarin.
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>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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Yes indeed. I think Quenya had for Quendi ("Elves") a status not far from
that of Classical Latin or Sanskrit in their respective cultures.
Christophe Grandsire
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