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<DIV>This is amazing Tim!</DIV>
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<DIV>Ed#:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>On Apr
7, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Tim Stoffel wrote:<BR><BR>> Ultxa seri oe hu ngenga mì
<<Las Vegas>> a lu prrte oeru (It would be a<BR>> pleasure to
meet with you in Las Vegas)(Na'vi)<BR>> <BR>> M'athchomaroon, zhey
lakakaan! Hash yer dothrae chek asshekh? (Greetings<BR>> to the warrior.
How are you (lit. do you ride well) today?)(Dothraki)<BR>> <BR>> Na'vi
is my primary focus, and I have been working on that language for<BR>> a
little over two years now. I can write and speak it tolerably, but<BR>>
there is still much to learn.<BR>> <BR>> I got interested in Dothraki as
the Na'vi community has been supporting<BR>> the web resources needed to
promote the language, and because one of the<BR>> first hundred or so words
released was 'Hrakkar' for 'white lion' (which<BR>> actually goes back to
the original books, and is my Dothraki name.) I<BR>> was very fortunate
last summer to have spent several days with David<BR>> Peterson when he was
in Reno for the Worldcon Science Fiction<BR>> convention. We became
friends, and I am one of perhaps 5 or 6 people he<BR>> coaches
personally.<BR>> <BR>> Na'vi and Dothraki are good languages to learn
together, as they are<BR>> almost exact opposites of each other. Na'vi is a
beautiful, flowing<BR>> language that still has exotic sounds in it, like
ejectives. It has a<BR>> relatively straightforward grammar, 'infixes' in
the verbs, and<BR>> comparatively free word order. Dothraki is more of a
warrior's tongue,<BR>> and is a lot more consonantal than Na'vi (but not as
guttural as<BR>> Klingon). Its sounds are simpler to master than Na'vi, but
it has a<BR>> fairly challenging grammar, and tables of prefixes/suffixes
you simply<BR>> have to memorize to get right.<BR>> <BR>> kìyevame
(good bye, see you again)(Na'vi)<BR>> Fonas chek! (goodbye, lit. 'hunt
well!')(Dothraki)<BR>> <BR>> Tim Stoffel<BR>> A.K.A. 'Eylan
Ayfalulukanä on Pandora, Hrakkar on the Dothraki Sea<BR>> <BR>>
--<BR>> <BR>> On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 11:58 -0700, Ted Langdell
wrote:<BR>>> Engineering and languages have a things in common, so it's
not too<BR>>> surprising to find QuadList member Tim Stoffel has been
learning and<BR>>> helping expand several languages.<BR>>>
<BR>>> <BR>>> Tim's been learning how to speak and write the Na'vi
language from the<BR>>> movie Avatar, and has recently taken up
Dothraki tongue from HBO's<BR>>> Game of Thrones.<BR>>>
<BR>>> <BR>>> The development and use of these languages is
explored tomorrow<BR>>> (Sunday, April 8, 2012) at 1pm Eastern/11am
Pacific on CNNs What's<BR>>> Next with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.<BR>>>
http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/category/the-next-list/<BR>>>
<BR>>> <BR>>> Tim is one of the people CNN asked to record
themselves saying<BR>>> something in one of the tongues. His
contribution was recorded<BR>>> several weeks ago.<BR>>>
<BR>>> <BR>>> So, don't be surprised if he tells you his food at
our Tuesday lunch<BR>>> is ftxìlor or that after walking the floor ot
the Las Vegas Convention<BR>>> Center, he's haqe. <BR>>>
<BR>>> <BR>>> He'll tell you that learning the new languages is
sometimes hard work,<BR>>> but tì'o'.<BR>>> <BR>>>
<BR>>> Ted<BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>>> Ted
Langdell<BR>>> Secretary<BR>>> Fifth
Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB<BR>>>
12:30pm, Tuesday, April 17,
2012<BR>>> Lower
South Hall REAR food concession area<BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>>> See
us at NAB 2012, April 16-19 in Booth SL-9607<BR>>> Use code LV2864 for
your free NAB Exhibits Pass<BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>>> Please trim
posts to relevant info when replying.<BR>>> <BR>>> Change subject
to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<BR>>>
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