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fallingstar7669 replied to your post: I’m writing a D&D campaign right now. I’m looking...

Which day of the week?

WHOOPS. It’s be on Sunday… somehow I thought I stated that, but I just re-read and did not… WHOOPS -edits post to fix-

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fallingstar7669 answered your question: I’ve made a decision.

Welcome to what I was telling you five years ago, darling. But hey, I’m just glad you’re getting around to it. Stay confident; I had faith in you then, and I still have faith in you now. :)

Oh... I... don't remember what you told me 5 years ago... that was 5 years ago ^^" I barely remember anything from 5 days ago ^^"

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fallingstar7669 replied to your post: Dear Tumblr/Ace society

I’m not asexual, but I would imagine if you’re having trouble portraying a character trait, try framing it with something seemingly contradictory. For example, a porn fanatic. Or someone who’s a zen master at masturbation. Or, maybe a connoisseur of erotic art. Unfortunately, someone who isn’t interested in sex is, logically, going to be celibate; but that does not mean they need to encourage celibacy in others, or dismiss the idea of sex entirely. Hope that helps!

It does a bit, but also doesn't? Like, again, it still falls under the same issue of the celibacy thing. Like, asexual people seem to be like "We're not celibate, we just don't care for sex" which is fine... but depicting them having sex is still going to lead to "I thought they were asexual?! We were lied to?!" and I just don't know how to handle that.

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The nasal-infixed form of KHAT would be *hanta- leading to *hantalë for "flinging," but there's a conflict there with hanta- "to thank." I think your workarounds were the way to go! Love reading this blog, keep it up! :)

Thank you so much for your correction and your support! :)

Would you mind explaining in more detail how nasal infliction usually works in Quenya, or give me a source I can look up? I wasn’t able to find any proper info during my research for this request and I’m really intrigued. :)

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Aiya ata! Got another problem for you; this time literally. The word "problem" (or "obstacle") is terribly useful but not glossed in any of my Quenya wordlists (I use the stuff found at the Ardalambion index), or anywhere close to it. After a few hours of pondering, and the Wiktionary etymology of "problem", I came up with "opohetië" - opo "before" + het "to fling" + -ië (abstract noun suffix). Mana sanwelyar?

Hi again! :)

I really like the idea of “before + to fling” to follow the word’s etymology. 

To my knowledge, the Quenya verb for to fling is hat- (root KHAT). I’d prefer not to use -ië because I understand it’s mostly used to derive abstract nouns from adjectives. Instead, I’d suggest using -lë, which “is typically used to derive verbal nouns” (x). Fauskanger says that:

In the case of basic stems ending in a consonant, the ending -lë may be added to a nasal-infixed form of them. (x)

I’m uncertain what Fauskanger means by “nasal-infixed form,” but I believe that this would mean tl > lt in this case, thus opohaltë.  

I also like to create new words by paraphrasing. For example:

“No fortune”: úheren, úmanar, úmandë

“Difficult thing”: urengwë, urunat, hrainat, uruma, hraima 

heren fortune

manar doom, final end, fate, fortune, final bliss

mandë doom, final end, fate, fortune, final bliss

ma something, a thing, anything

nat thing

engwë thing

ur(u)- hard, difficult

hrai- hard, *difficult

ú- no, not, un-, in-; hard, difficult, bad, uneasy

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Aiya! I was wondering if you had seen this translation before, or if I could get your opinion on it: 'onotil' for the modern equivalent of 'computer'. This would be the verb onot, "to count up", which surprisingly mirrors the same form as the Latin derivation of "computer": com- (together) and putare (to reckon), versus Quenya o- (together) and not (to reckon). The only thing needed was to add the impersonal agental suffix -il, equivalent to English -er. What do you think? Love your tumblr! :)

Aiya meldonya!

Thank you so much for your nice words! :)

I’ve never encountered the word onotil before, but I do think it’s a nice way to translate computer into Quenya since the -il suffix is attested in similar constructions with verbs:

Siril rivulet from sir- to flow

Sicil dagger, knife from SIK- (probably a verb root meaning to cut or something similar)

Tecil pen from TEK- to write

Another interesting alternative (found here) is 

nonwa "computer" (lit. “implement for reckoning”); derived from the stem NOT by adding ending -ma; CE *notmâ becomes nonwa in Q

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fallingstar7669 answered: Depends on how many you got. Making a separate blog would keep them organized. Or, you could just link to them.

I could just link to where they are...hadn't thought of that.