Okay, getting ready to transfer hotels and mindset. Going from family vacation to professional conference headspace. Also going from very nice, serviceable Residence Inn to more upscale Radisson Wardman Park.
Zoo today as well.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Barb - Jul 13, 2009 4:52:03 am PDT #16340 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Gudanov - Jul 13, 2009 5:01:45 am PDT #16341 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Happy Day Late Birthday Seska!
sj - Jul 13, 2009 5:03:29 am PDT #16342 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Happy Belated Birthday, Seska!!! I hope you had a great day!
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 5:14:39 am PDT #16343 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Girl is sitting next to me with one sock on. "Why do you have one sock on?" I ask. "I just do," she says.
Did she say this like the Cat in Coraline?
WindSparrow - Jul 13, 2009 5:44:18 am PDT #16344 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Sindarin. There simply aren't enough examples, even in the notes, to build a reasonable lexicon of Quenya. Christopher has, apparently, become quite agitated and cranky about this, considering the insane clamor coming from the linguistic fanboys.
I'm enough of a fangirl to be able to call up the names of the languages from memory but not enough of a fangirl to know the state of the languages themselves. Poor Christopher.
Barb, have fun storming the castle the Radisson.
Gudanov - Jul 13, 2009 5:48:27 am PDT #16345 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Wait... Quenya or Sindarin?
Suddenly I feel a certain geek inadequacy. I'm writing a fantasy novel and this is meaningless to me. That seems wrong.
amych - Jul 13, 2009 5:54:36 am PDT #16346 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Basically, Sindarin is your common or garden-variety elvish, and Quenya is the EVEN MORE MARY SUE elvish spoken by the even more elfy elves who are too snooty for Middle Earth.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 5:57:22 am PDT #16347 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, speaking as a mostly-non-fanboy... WTF? They already have one made-up language but that's not good enough for them?
OK, Trek just has Klingon, right? Star Wars has no made up languages, right? (I mean, no one's tried to figure out the language Chewey or RD-D2 speaks, right?)
Tom Scola - Jul 13, 2009 6:01:17 am PDT #16348 of 30000
hwæt
Star Wars has plenty of made up languages. Return of the Jedi even had a song that was originally written in English and then translated: [link]
note: YouTube is blocked for me at work. I'm not 100% sure that link is correct.
Cashmere - Jul 13, 2009 6:01:52 am PDT #16349 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
You have to remember Tolkien was a philologist. He spoke Old Icelandic, Old English, Middle English and Welsh. He was obsessed with how the languages developed. One might say that his books were just a reason to explain his invented languages.