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Today I'm in even more of a hurry that usual, as I have a 7 PM concert (I'll miss the first showing of GoT, so no spoilers please!). As a result, please forgive any incompleteness or shoddyness.

News items:

• The Valar Javaris promo ran again last week, and I've finally found it online. check it out. Comedy gold!
• DJP posted again, "The Valyrian Word ( Read more... )

There was no Valyrian in last week's Game of Thrones. Nice to have a week off and all, but of course we can always find stuff to do. And of course the first matter is the name of the episode:Ēlos Zȳho Brōzio
First of his Name
Now, right before the episode aired, there was that brilliant VALAR JAVARIS promo for Silicon Valley. I was sure they would ( Read more... )

Wow, quite an embarras de richesse this week! Lots and lots of Valyrian dialog, with our first real exposure to Meereneese (MV). But before we talk about that, let's deal with the episode title, Oathkeeper.

We don't have "oath" or "keep," so I figured "promise holder" would suffice. Well, we actually have three HV words for "hold": oregon, ( Read more... )

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I haven’t posted this week because there was no Valyrian in last week’s episode. But there were a few points I wanted to make before tonight’s episode airs.

1. First of all, episode title:

Kēlio Rūklōn
The Lion and the Flower,
... because we don’t yet know the word for “rose.”

2. Second of all, Zhalio suggested that the word I transcribed as ( Read more... )

Well, Game of Thrones is back, and with it new Valyrian material (hopefully) every week for us to analyze.

Over the last 10 months of hiatus a lot has been happening in Valyrian studies. But as I'd mentioned, it hasn't seemed worth it to report on it here, now that we have the Wiki up and running. The High Valyrian pages are getting really good, ( Read more... )

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So, as usual, let's begin with what we've learned off-air this week:

On Monday, right after I posted my last entry, I got to do another IRC session with Mr. Peterson, and we learned a good deal.

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