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Beginners / Re: Adjectives
« on: November 21, 2013, 03:56:38 am »There was a movement earlier in the last century among scientifically literate English speakers to 'modernize' English by dropping some of these epenthetic letters. For instance, 'modernize' would become 'moderniz'. Although I got used to it, reading their writings was annoying at first.
It's like ё instead of final e in Quenya (and not only final, for example, the name Ёarendil) - as a Russian native speaker, I would never read [irendil] instead of [earendil] - but it is necessary to add, because Tolkien was an English speaker)