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Old 03-22-2004, 02:09 AM   #28
Althern
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: A twin city divided by a great river... must be Osgiliath
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Althern has just left Hobbiton.
I think this is Gandalf again:
Quote:
Very pretty!" said Gandalf. "But I have no time to blow smoke-rings this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.
(I found an online Georgian lexicon, and a description of the grammar, but it was the fonts that defeated me in the end. So, I had to guess.)

From the grammar:
Quote:
dagvalevinebdito ("'you would give it to us to drink', he said") may be broken down into the following grammatical units: da-gv-a-lev-in-eb-d-i-t-o preverb – indirect object marker – pre-radical vowel – verb root (-lev- "drink") – causative marker – present/future stem formant – stem augment – screeve marker – plural marker – indirect speech marker.
Yipes! This agglutination is far, far worse than anything I have ever experienced in Hungarian (at least 4 words are needed for this).
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