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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
Unfortunately, Ardalambion (Helge Fauskanger) and Davis Salo are not trustworthy sources at all. A very great deal of what they claim to be "Elvish" of various flavours is speculative or outright invention.
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This is true as far as it goes.
That's pretty much why I've stuck to very simple phrases for the demo - they can't mess up the grammar if I don't use any!
I know Sindarin verbs are a perennial nightmare, and so I've avoided using any verbs at all.
I've preferred Eldamo for my vocabulary, because I know Ardalambion takes a very 'temporal fusion' approach; Eldamo splits the vocab up by period (unless you explicitly pick the Neo- language options). I think the most speculative portion is the Telerin, which is heavily based on Salo's comments - but even if/though my translations have errors, they still give an accurate feel for what the languages sound and taste like.
hS