[Dark_4ce]

AAAAAaaaahhhh... *Is proud to know fluently the language that elvish is based on...*

*Waves at the few others who know this ancient and sacred language!*

Perkele!

[Redfang]

Suomeen perustuva kieli? No ei ihan siltä kyllä näytä.
 
Heh, ymmäretään haltijakieltä mutta ei suomea, johan on kumma.
 
Edit2: Ihme on kyllä jos kukaan ei mainitse siitä että kirjotinkin suomenkieltä... tosin varmasti mainitsee.
 
Edit: But why did he "base" it on finnish? Did he think that it's some ancient language?

[Gortef]

Originally posted by Redfang
Suomeen perustuva kieli? No ei ihan siltä kyllä näytä.
 
Heh, ymmäretään haltijakieltä mutta ei suomea, johan on kumma.
 
Edit: But why did he "base" it on finnish? Did he think that it's some ancient language?

Olen joskus kuullu syyn miksi hän piti suomenkielestä mutta en enää musita

Beat's me
Maybe it just sounded like Elvish in his ears

[Stryke 9]

Because who the hell knows Finnish? Finland's some icy backwater in the middle of nowhere with a population of about 12. It's to the now-destitute icy backwater of Russia what Canada is to the US.

[Dark_4ce]

Originally posted by Gortef


Olen joskus kuullu syyn miksi hän piti suomenkielestä mutta en enää musita

Beat's me
Maybe it just sounded like Elvish in his ears

Muistaakseni sen mielestä se kuullosti kauniilta. Meh...

Probably, though the best reply I got from a friend was that it sounded like cave people grunting to each other...

[Su-tehp]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Muistaakseni sen mielestä se kuullosti kauniilta. Meh...

Holy crap! I haven't seen this many double vowels since I played Homeworld!

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
...it sounded like cave people grunting to each other...

You mean like Kellan and Strike 9 are doing to each other in this thread?

Here I am trying to have a serious conversation about a language, and these two keep going off on their tangents about how LOTR sucks or comparing the Eldar to Christmas elves.

[Stryke 9]

[deleted. Can't type. Laughing ass off]

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Su-tehp


Holy crap! I haven't seen this many double vowels since I played Homeworld!



You mean like Kellan and Strike 9 are doing to each other in this thread?

 
Many finnish words have double vowels.
 
And Kellan and Stryke 9 aren't only doing that in this thread, but in quite many threads.

[Stryke 9]

Boog nugh! Arg! [hits Redfang with a femur]

What are you talking about, anyway? I'm mostly *****ing, moaning, and trying to get a game running properly, so I have something else to do.

****ing summer. ****ing weather. ****ing daylight. And sun.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Su-tehp
Holy crap! I haven't seen this many double vowels since I played Homeworld!

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Redfang
And Kellan and Stryke 9 aren't only doing that in this thread, but in quite many threads.

I resent that. Even though it's true.

[Martinus]

I find elvish to be a very beautiful language, a lot better than Irish anyway, it sounds like a welsh person with a speech impediment.

It's something I'd love to learn if I had the time.

[Stealth]

i think it sounds finnish, since it's based primarily on Finnish, but anyway

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Stealth
i think it sounds finnish, since it's based primarily on Finnish, but anyway

 
I don't think so, and I live in Finland... maybe it's just me.
 
But have you actually heard how finnish sounds?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

the first time i looked at the title I read:

How many people here are studying to speak Elvis?

I though you were crazy

The second time I looked at the title i read:

How many people here are studying to speak Elvish?

Now i thought that you might just as well ask how many geeks we have here....

I am of course making somekind of joke

[Stealth]

there was a guy from Finland in my class last year, and he spoke Finnish, English, and Swedish...

i'm sure it was him that said it was based on Finnish

[Redfang]

Yes, it is based on Finnish and Latin, it was on that site which Su-Tehp posted, I scrolled it down and noticed that.
 
So it's based on Finnish, but I still can't understand it at all.

[Gortef]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce


Muistaakseni sen mielestä se kuullosti kauniilta. Meh...

Probably, though the best reply I got from a friend was that it sounded like cave people grunting to each other...

Saatto olla...

Grunting... Ok... ok... I guess it sounds like it

[CP5670]

But languages like Klingon and Elvish do both. They're spoken in movies, true, but they are also spoken in the real world among people part of a community of like-minded fans. What's the difference?  

Still, they were initially created for different purposes.

LOL! Oh, really? Then how would you interpret this wavefile?

*thinks of something*

That translates to "Begin transfer of Bosch Beer stockpile."

So now it is a great language as well!

[Su-tehp]

Originally posted by Su-tehp


LOL! Oh, really? Then how would you interpret this wavefile?

*Su-tehp moons CP and simultaneously uses the mesage-end.wav file of static to simulate a fart in CP's general direction*

Originally posted by CP5670
*thinks of something*

That translates to "Begin transfer of Bosch Beer stockpile."

So now it is a great language as well!

That's the first time I've ever heard a static/fart translated as involving the consumption of some kind of beer...

Not that I'm complaing, mind you!