Timeline for Are words for "machine" and the like in Tolkien present in Elvish/Westron?
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 15:47 | answer | added | CHEESE | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 3:24 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 3:05 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | I'm voting to close this question because it is a translation request. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:47 | comment | added | auden | Ironically, the word for machine only shows up in the dictionaries of the elvish languages, though the problem there is probably that the dictionaries of orcish/black language/khuzdul are very, very small @caconyrn - so probably not an answerable question to begin with. On the other hand, Khuzdul is based on the semitic languages, and the Black Language might be based on Hittite, so I suppose it'd be possible to try to analyze those compared to Quenya/Noldorin/Sindarin? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:34 | comment | added | caconyrn | Could you perhaps search through the dictionaries and report your results? If it is a negative result, is that something actually notable or just the dictionary being small? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:33 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @caconyrn Aren't all tolkien-* questions about a specific fictional work? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:30 | comment | added | auden | I'm providing context for my question about if these words exist and whether they derive from black speech/orcish/khuzdul @caconym - and yes, it's about a specific fictional work, because that's where the conlang appears. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:28 | comment | added | caconyrn | I would find this a good question on scifi.SE, but here it just rubs the the wrong way, in that it is not about the creation of languages, but about this specific fictional work etc. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:26 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | I think this is a good question and I upvoted it. Probably the downvoters think that "what's the word for <thing> in <conlang>" questions shouldn't be allowed. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:24 | comment | added | auden | If there's anything off-topic/that I can improve about this question, please let me know! | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:23 | history | asked | auden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |