Friday, May 30, 2008

“Let them sa-si, if they can speak no better.”

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Today’s post is about allophones, speech impediments, and onomatopoeia — with a little Tolkien thrown in for good measure. (What isn’t impr...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

One year online!

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So now I can say tempus *really* fugit . It’s been a full year since the inception of Lingwë – Musings of a Fish. :) Some 136 posts on a va...
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Friday, May 9, 2008

New languages at Google — not quite ready for prime time

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For some time now, Google has offered a suite of online language tools , including automatic translation for text and web pages, dictionarie...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

More on Sir Gawain: Trolls, Ogres — and Rings?

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Tolkien’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — in particular, about the choices he made i...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Leading a Reading Room discussion this week

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For you of you who haven’t heard of the Reading Room at TheOneRing.net — known affectionately as TORn, you’re really missing out. Though a...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Friday Diversion: Tolkien in the Golden Age of Hollywood

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I’ll let this clever piece of film editing speak for itself. Peter Lorre makes a great Gollum, doesn’t he? Enjoy! :)
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Middle English “half trolls” and “ogres” — according to Tolkien

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Not too long ago, I wrote about the Old English eoten (which is usually translated “giant”), as attested only in Beowulf . The word died o...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Truths Breathed Through Silver

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My copy of Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings’ Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy arrived yesterday from the U.K. It’s a small but well-...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

An ‘inkling’ of what I’ve been up to recently

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Good day, all. I’m working on a new post about some particular elements in Tolkien’s edition and translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Kni...
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