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To: King Prout

My first thought is "Cool!"

My second thought is "I wonder who else may be out there in cyberspace with a head-start on this?"

Googled "elven tongue" and got 157,000 results.

I'd say, begin compiling names and email addresses, see who is already involved, who's communicating/collaborating with who, and engage the work from there. Perhaps the first task being to pull everyone together into a common org for the sake of focus and synergy. Next, amass from the various members, a library of sources from everything that has been used, then collaboratively rank these source materials in order of authority. Assemble from these sources as near-complete a lexicon as possible.

This scope of work should be sufficient to engage everyone involved for at least the next two years; perhaps three.


3,368 posted on 11/10/2005 1:36:17 PM PST by HKMk23 (FOR SALE: French Army standard issue infantry rifles. Dropped once. Never fired.)
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To: HKMk23

this could easily take decades.
that's fine by me.

the trick is to figure out how HE worked out the words, reverse engineer the derivations, figure out the principles behind the derivation and development, and then very carefully build the vocabulary


3,436 posted on 11/10/2005 3:04:40 PM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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