What are you drinking right now?

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alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Vegitto
Cool. What's your sig mean?

It's in elvish from Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring specifically.

Galadriel: I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, han mathon ne chae a han noston ned 'wilith.

Galadriel: 'The world is changed; I can feel it in the water, I can feel it in the earth, I can smell it in the air.'


I amar n. 'the world'.

prestar aen v. pass. 'is changed'; cf. presta- 'affect, trouble' (LR 380). David Salo explains it as aen 'they' and prestar '[they] change' in Elfling message no. 16323.

han pron. 'it'.

mathon v. pres. 'I feel'; cf. matha- 'feel, stroke, handle' (LR 371).

ne, ned prep. 'in, of'.

nen n. 'water'.

cae, mut. chae n. 'earth'.

a conj. 'and'.

noston v. 'I smell'; *nosta- 'smell'; cf. stem NUS-; Q nusta- 'smell'. In the official recording ennorously (?) nostron, from **nostra-?

'wilith n. 'air as a region'; usually ned 'in' triggers a stop mutation; if so it should be *ne gwilith 'in the air'. However David Salo writes: "I would not expect on historical grounds for *w to behave exactly like *g; since *w > gw is an instance of 'fortition' (change of approximant to stop) and *g > zero is the opposite, lenition. If we started with, say, *ed+wilith (or *wilitthe), then - assuming that the two words remain in contact throughout their development, then the fortition never gets a chance to take place. You would have e wilith instead of *ed wilith if the loss of the final consonant occurred, generally, before any other consonant" (David Salo, Elfling message from Jan 16, 2002).


www.elvish.org ;)

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moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: Vegitto
I'm drinking a nice glass of Cointreau. Might get some ice for the next glass, though. Lovin' it.

What are you drinking?

(It's 22:15 here, by the way.)
watching the Yankees clean up and drinking a nice cold :beer:

 

Juno

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Jul 3, 2004
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drank some heineken last night at a pool party.

of course i was the first to dive in the pool.
 

gar3555

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me: crown on the rocks
gf: ultra dirty vodka martini w/ absolut

little bed time snacks