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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: How are you doing
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 09:37:48 GMT
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In article <380n0f$g6k@netnews.upenn.edu> avi@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Avi Freedman) writes:

>Elvish	Mae govannen!

Hold it.  Labelling this one as Elvish is the same thing as labelling
all the rest of them as Mannish.  Nor does it mean `How are you doing?'
(which is why it doesn't have a question mark at the end); _Mae govannen!_
is Sindarin (Grey Elvish) for `Well met!'  (_mae_ `well'; _go-_ `together'
+ _-van-_ `go' + _-nen_ (a past participle suffix)).

Just thought I'd set this one straight.  The Mannish entries are full
of bugs, too, but not worth the effort.

-- 
`That's yer oan problem, Judas', they telt him.  `It's nae concern tae us.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk/chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)  (The G-- G--)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,   Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
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