I am not a poster. I am a crispy critter.

[The Zontron 7000]

I am an internet java script sent to infiltrate your site and transform you from political neanderthals into a modern 21st Century progressive mode.

This is your first warning.

Do not try and resist.

It is useless.

Accept your fate.

You will be assimilated.

[Monkey Face]

'Night, Irish!

[Monkey Face]

Yah, well, I was a niece, once.

[HKMk23]

Your family sounds ever so much more exciting than mine. The worst that happened in my family is that an ancestor of my paternal grandmother was disowned and put out of fellowship for going to fight in the Civil War. They were Quakers, ya see, and Quakers do not do such things.

A burglar was caught by surprise as he went about his business in the home of an old Quaker gentleman. Turnig around, he was all the more surprised to see the pacifist levelling a shotgun at him. "Hey," he shouted, "isn't that aginst your religion?!" The Quaker, unmoving, replied calmly, "Sir, for all the world I would not harm thee, but thou standest where I am about to shoot."

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We are quite the dull respectable bunch now days.

[HKMk23]

"Cracking" and then augmenting the elven languages is an intriguing exercise. How much have you looked into it to-date?

Congratulations on the success of your lay-up, BTW. Sounds like you're winning that design/build battle.

[fanfan]

We have some, but most Canadian Sheeple get their news from the mostly liberal MSM up here too.

Think of it this way, go back to the 80's with everyone getting their info from Dan Rather.
How many people knew then what he and his comrades were up to.

Fast forward to Canada at the beginning of the 21st century.


Our fight is before us.

[fanfan]

LOL


What would you do with the empty spot anyway?

[fanfan]

That's funny.



My children seem to have a heritage of Norman, Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish, English, and probably a hefty dose of who knows what.

I wonder what that makes them?

;-D

[fanfan]

Nite folks.

:-)

[sionnsar]

Good night, Irish!

[sionnsar]

A burglar was caught by surprise as he went about his business in the home of an old Quaker gentleman. Turnig around, he was all the more surprised to see the pacifist levelling a shotgun at him. "Hey," he shouted, "isn't that aginst your religion?!" The Quaker, unmoving, replied calmly, "Sir, for all the world I would not harm thee, but thou standest where I am about to shoot."

LMOL!!

[sionnsar]

My children seem to have a heritage of Norman, Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish, English, and probably a hefty dose of who knows what.
I wonder what that makes them?

North American.

[sionnsar]

'Night, fanfan!

[sionnsar]

Last Post?

[HKMk23]

I wonder what that makes them?

White bred??

Actually, my ancestry is all over the place because my grandmother's sister didn't adhere to the strict right-line descendancy. She went back as far as she could then, when she hit a dead end, she'd come forward a generation at a time and try the wife's side of that family until she found a traceable lineage.

Well, doing it THAT way, she managed to rope in Spanish, Norman, French, English, Irish, Scot and tie into the whole Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, taking it back to Cerdic of Wessex who immigrated from Gual in 495AD, if you believe that record to be reliable.

[NicknamedBob]

"Cracking" and then augmenting the elven languages is an intriguing exercise. How much have you looked into it to-date?

It looks as though others have been doing this for many years...

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/tolkien/27807

A small community of linguists devote some of their spare time to studying Tolkien's constructed languages. To some extent these languages have been growing through the years as licensees of Tolkien Enterprises and the Tolkien linguistic community have proposed new names, devised new words, or attempted to deduce roots and cognates in various dialects. These "new words" are not honest-to-goodness "J.R.R. Tolkien words", but if the wordmakers understand the rules of the languages correctly, the words are legitimate extensions of the languages, though we should perhaps envision these new word sets as defining new dialects to keep them distinct from Tolkien's dialects.

Although there are a number of very well designed Web sites which provide tutorials and basic vocabularies, the language researchers have a relatively small collection of source books to work with. Tolkien never published any formal Elvish dictionaries or grammars, but he did provide some information about the Elven languages, and his son Christopher has provided much more information.

To fully understand how the Elven languages evolved, one needs to read through the entire History of Middle-earth series. Most of the information is provided in only a few books, but there are snippets and tidbits scattered throughout them all. The history of the Elven tongues may be reduced to a few phases, however. The first phase is barely distinguishable (phonetically, in the way the words sound) from the nonsense words many present-day fantasy novels resort to for names of characters and places. They did possess what Christopher said was an underlying "sophisticated and phonetically intricate historical structure".

The names from the first phase are derived from a language Tolkien called "Qenya" and another he called "Goldogrin" (the language of the Gnomes, the race of Elves in The Book of Lost Tales whose role was given to the Noldor in The Silmarillion). He devised two lexicons (word lists or dictionaries) for these early languages.

Heinlein discussed two invented languages; Martian, in Stranger in a Strange Land, and a compressed, logical language in Friday. Sensibly, however, he never went into details about the words, syntax, or other things, except for "grok" which has entered the American vocabulary.

Similarly, although I wrote about a future society, I did not invent a new language for them, other than modifying present-day words in context. It's simply a lot of work, and if one were truly successful, all the readers would have to learn the new language before reading the book.

My interest, I suppose, would lie in examining the technology and programming philosophy behind a "Universal Translator." In all likelihood, this would take the form of a robot or android who would absorb the new language most readily. Picture Anthony Daniels as C3PO.

My own androids are humanoid, for reasons we need not go into here.

Equally likely, however, is that the android interpreter will be internalized in us, as augmentations to our mental capabilities. I am currently describing this in my fourth book, developing the concepts as I work through the book. Some of you may have already read Chapter Seventeen of this forthcoming book. (Pun unintentional -- fourthcoming.)

I think Ray Kurzweil would agree with me.

[Monkey Face]

"...Actually, my ancestry is all over the place because my grandmother's sister didn't adhere to the strict right-line descendancy. She went back as far as she could then, when she hit a dead end, she'd come forward a generation at a time and try the wife's side of that family until she found a traceable lineage.

Well, doing it THAT way, she managed to rope in Spanish, Norman, French, English, Irish, Scot and tie into the whole Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, taking it back to Cerdic of Wessex who immigrated from Gual in 495AD, if you believe that record to be reliable."

Actually, you and I "might" be related. In a very distant shirt-tail way.

[Monkey Face]

And with that, I'm off to bed. Ta.

[Alice au Wonderland]

Oh,a right funny uncle you are! Egads!