{"id":673,"date":"2012-07-28T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2012-07-28T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T23:46:09","slug":"%d1%85%d0%be%d0%b1%d0%b1%d0%b8%d1%82-%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%b8-%d1%82%d1%83%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d0%b8-%d0%be%d0%b1%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%bd%d0%be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"\u00d0\u00a5\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00b8\u00d1\u201a, \u00d0\u00b8\u00d0\u00bb\u00d0\u00b8 \u00d0\u00a2\u00d1\u0192\u00d0\u00b4\u00d0\u00b0 \u00d0\u00b8 \u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d1\u20ac\u00d0\u00b0\u00d1\u201a\u00d0\u00bd\u00d0\u00be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week was another book sale at my library. I picked up a Teach Yourself Colloquial Arabic and one other. I found the colloquial Arabic interesting since it did not use Arabic script for the Arabic phrases. Instead, the book uses romanization. This may come in handy when looking for some conlanging inspiration, so that’s now in my personal collection.<\/p>\n

The other is the Tolkien’s The Hobbit<\/em> in Russian: \u00d0\u00a5\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00b8\u00d1\u201a, \u00d0\u00b8\u00d0\u00bb\u00d0\u00b8 \u00d0\u00a2\u00d1\u0192\u00d0\u00b4\u00d0\u00b0 \u00d0\u00b8 \u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d1\u20ac\u00d0\u00b0\u00d1\u201a\u00d0\u00bd\u00d0\u00be<\/em>. The first thing I noticed was that the cover sported the famous Darrell Sweet painting of Thorin and Thranduil, the Elven King. Not sure if all the copyrights were adhered to, but it’s a handsome picture:<\/p>\n

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The volume also includes translations of Farmer Giles of Ham<\/em>, Leaf by Niggle<\/em>, and Smith of Wooton Major<\/em>, all with different illustration styles. Farmer Giles<\/em> includes the well-known artwork of Pauline Baynes. Last year, I passed up a complete collection of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> in Russian and still kick myself. No, I can’t read Russian, but it’s very interesting to be able to see how names and other items (e.g., maps) are handled in other languages. I know just enough Cyrillic to be able to puzzle out individual words and names. \u00d0\u00a5\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00b8\u00d1\u201a, \u00d0\u00b8\u00d0\u00bb\u00d0\u00b8 \u00d0\u00a2\u00d1\u0192\u00d0\u00b4\u00d0\u00b0 \u00d0\u00b8 \u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d1\u20ac\u00d0\u00b0\u00d1\u201a\u00d0\u00bd\u00d0\u00be<\/em> is also illustrated in the manner of a children’s book. While The Hobbit<\/em> could be considered a children’s book, the illustrations seem at odd with the sometimes dark themes of the story. For example, here’s an illustration of the dwarves and Bilbo: \"Illustration<\/a> The book also includes some nice maps, such as this one of the Battle of Five Armies: \"Map<\/a> (You can see the arrows denoting where the orki<\/em> are coming from.). Finally, one of the more disturbing pieces from the book are the elves which have wings. Yes, wings: \"Elves<\/a> This is obviously the scene with Bilbo finding the way out of the Elven King’s halls through the empty wine barrels. But those wings… That’s a new one. Even so, it’s interesting to get a new perspective on the adventures of \u00d0\u2018\u00d0\u00b8\u00d0\u00bb\u00d1\u0152\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00be \u00d0\u2018\u00d1\u008d\u00d0\u00b3\u00d0\u00b3\u00d0\u00b8\u00d0\u00bd\u00d1\u0081, \u00d0\u201c\u00d1\u008d\u00cc\u0081\u00d0\u00bd\u00d0\u00b4\u00d0\u00b0\u00d0\u00bb\u00d1\u0152\u00d1\u201e, \u00d0\u00a2\u00d0\u00be\u00d1\u20ac\u00d0\u00b8\u00d0\u00bd and all the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week was another book sale at my library. I picked up a Teach Yourself Colloquial Arabic and one other. I found the colloquial Arabic interesting since it did not use Arabic script for the Arabic phrases. Instead, the book uses romanization. This may come in handy when looking for some conlanging inspiration, so that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-natural-languages","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}