current Na'vi vocabulary

[nesmith]

I'm like a lot of geeks; there's a certain atavistic pleasure in immersing oneself into a fantasy world, and one of the best ways to do it is to learn one of the created and extant languages produced for a film/TV series/book series. Elvish, Klingon, and my current fancy--Na'vi. I love the way it sounds and the challenge of some of the

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[thursdaysisters]

Neeeeeerd ;-)

[valiha]

Eeee you too! I've dabbled in all three languages, but haven't gotten far with any of them. I think my biggest success so far has been the tengwar writing system which I can read and write quite proficiently. I even developed a mode for my own language, since it has some sounds not used in Sindarin or Quenya. :)

[nesmith]

I haven't gone into Elvish much beyond learning tengwar calligraphy(and being a geek and breaking down/translating the writing on the One Ring, which actually does say "ash nazh durbatuluk" etc). Listening to Tolkien reading Namarie pretty much convinced me that Elvish is a little hard to wrap my fat tongue around. Na'vi is a challenge by itself (especially since I can't roll my Rs). :)