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[Master of Reality]

I am currently trying to learn Sindarin, I hate english. "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally."

[alied_perez]

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:
I am currently trying to learn Sindarin, I hate english. "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally."

what's sindarin?
I'm tryng to learn Gaelic

[hoojchoons]

quote:Posted by alied_perez:
What's sindarin?
I'm trying to learn Gaelic  

Why not learn Greek?    

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Ας μάθει και κάποιος Ελληνικά για να καταλαβαινόμαστε καλύτερα εδώ μέσα!
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[alied_perez]

quote:Originally posted by hoojchoons:


Why not learn Greek?    

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Ας μάθει και κάποιος Ελληνικά για να καταλαβαινόμαστε καλύτερα εδώ μέσα!
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perhaps I have a bad feeling about cyrillic alphabet?

Nothing personal, but it remains me of russian  :mad:

[hoojchoons]

Wow! Apart from some character similarities the Greek alphabet has nothing to do with the Cyrillic one. A history lesson: The Cyrillic alphabet was developed for the Slavs (including Russians, Romanians, Bulgarians etc) by two Byzantine hierapostoles, Cyrillus and Methodios so that the Slavs would have their own language. That seemed to suit the Byzantines since they were under constant attack by the latter. So, please don't confuse Russian with Greek  

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by alied_perez:


what's sindarin?
I'm tryng to learn Gaelic

Sindarin is the tongue of the grey elves. Its a common-folk elvish tongue. Then there is Quenya which is another elvish language, it is a bit mroe "flowing" than Sindarin, its got less "hard" sounds.
Above that is Valorin which is only spoken by the High-elves and any lesser are not worthy to speak it.

[ May 31, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[alied_perez]

quote:Originally posted by hoojchoons:
Wow! Apart from some character similarities the Greek alphabet has nothing to do with the Cyrillic one. A history lesson: The Cyrillic alphabet was developed for the Slavs (including Russians, Romanians, Bulgarians etc) by two Byzantine hierapostoles, Cyrillus and Methodios so that the Slavs would have their own language. That seemed to suit the Byzantines since they were under constant attack by the latter. So, please don't confuse Russian with Greek      

ok, thanx for the historical lesson. maybe later I'll see some greek.

BTW, which is the meaning of "Keltoi"? (I believe it's like this, or something similar) I've read this is where the word celt comes from and is a greek word. Am I right?

[hoojchoons]

And don't forget that there are hundreds even thousands Greek words in Spanish that you regularly use let alone English and several other latin-born languages. Don't forget also that the German syntax is identical to the ancient Greek one.

[hoojchoons]

I don't really know if it's a Greek word but we use the word "Κέλτες" or "Keltes" (in the latin alphabet) in Greek. There's a theory though which suggests that the Celts descended directly from the Ancient Greeks since the latter used to make frequent trips (as it was proved) and establish colonies. Yes, even in Ireland! Some people even claim that the Irish's short-tempered mood relates a bit to our own.

[alied_perez]

quote:Originally posted by hoojchoons:
And don't forget that there are hundreds even thousands Greek words in Spanish that you regularly use let alone English and several other latin-born languages. Don't forget also that the German syntax is identical to the ancient Greek one.

yes, I know greek is one of the most important languages in human History(I'm serious) It had once the rol that latin had later. Only I don't(by now) interested on learning greak. That's all

[Master of Reality]

and dont forget that elven languages are like no other.
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caral noa tana edhellen lambe ve ain'at

[ May 31, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[hoojchoons]

Only learn it if you have loads of free time in your hands because it's a really difficult language with a vocabulary of up to 150,000 verbs and phrases. And the syntax is really a headache too. Anyway, I think that I'm far off the original topic. Sorry if I messed up the thread. Hope to see you posting more topics in the forums  

[Master of Reality]

i think the worst part of trying to learn any Elvish language is getting them mixed up. Quenya and Sinardin words are sometimes the same and sometimes quite different, their tengwar (alphabet) are completely different, but can be easily mistaken for the other language.

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Well, everyone knows French: fucking asshole bitch!

[hoojchoons]

quote: Well, everyone knows French: fucking asshole bitch!

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