Holiday weekend ketchup

[kalquessa]

Had very busy weekend, though it rarely seemed like it at any given moment.

Friday/Saturday:

Comments

[yoodi]

Actually I think your Tengwar means "aklekssa", but I could very well be mistaken. I haven't practised my Tengwar in ages, so to speak. ;) *scratchhead* It's a matter of whether you read the vowels "from top to bottom" or the other way round. I am fairly sure that both ways exist (though not simultaneuously, ie, in one text), but I taught myself only the mode fom Tolkien's books.
Anyway, if the first two vowels were read "from bottom to top" it'd still mean "kalkeass".

But, ah well, who knows this kind of thing, anyway......? XD ;)

Yoo

[yoodi]

Um, yes, and I like the icon. ^^

[kalquessa]

You could be correct, I wrote it to be read consonant first, then vowel, which may be incorrect for Quenya (I most frequently wrote English in Tengwar, so that mode may have been incorrectly used). If you read consonant before carried vowel, it should say "kalquessa" (assuming that the rule still holds that you can put the vowel over or under the carrying consonant without changing the order in which it's pronounced).

[/geekery]

[yoodi]

Yay for geekery. ^^

> (assuming that the rule still holds that you can put the vowel over or under the carrying consonant without changing the order in which it's pronounced).

That's an interesting rule, I didn't know that. Then it's correct, of course.

[kalquessa]

Just for the record, I may have just made that rule up. I do that sometimes. And then I forget which rules were real and which rules I made up because they made something more fun/prettier/make more sense to me.

I do seem to remember that being a genuine rule, though, for what it's worth. *shrug*

Added some geekery prompted by your comment to the bottom of the entry, in case you're interested.

[yoodi]

As I said, nobody would know what's correct anyway. *shrugs*
Ooo I'm an educated party. Woot. ;)

[kalquessa]

Heh heh...yes! I was especially proud of my discovery of the LJ Icon Mode. Go me!

[mollyringle]

What, this icon? Heh. I feel obliged to disclose that I know zilch about Tolkien's languages, sad to say, and this icon was made for me by someone else. So really, for all I know, it says "donkey snort" in Legolas's home tongue. :D

[kalquessa]

It does say "Lemonlye", as long as you are reading it in the consonant-before-vowel mode. Clearly the person who made your icon was also aware of the LJ Icon Mode.