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Is Tolkien's Elvish A Real Language?
3 years ago - 2 answers
Tolkien was a linguistic scholar who was fascinated by language throughout his life. From his earliest years, even as a child, he invented new languages. Many of these featured in his works of fiction but Tolkien also produced verbal compositions in his invented languages purely for the pleasure of doing so, and much of this work remained private.
In total, Tolkien must have invented dozens of languages over the course of his life, but the degree of sophistication of these languages varied and some value judgement is necessary to distinguish the more primitive and undeveloped of these linguistic constructions from what might be called developed languages. In truth, none of Tolkien's invented languages, at least in his own lifetime, ever developed that fully-fledged richness of vocabulary and read more...
In total, Tolkien must have invented dozens of languages over the course of his life, but the degree of sophistication of these languages varied and some value judgement is necessary to distinguish the more primitive and undeveloped of these linguistic constructions from what might be called developed languages. In truth, none of Tolkien's invented languages, at least in his own lifetime, ever developed that fully-fledged richness of vocabulary and read more...
answer by Cian 3 years ago
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Why Does The Sky Go Red At Sunset?
4 years ago - 3 answers
At sunset (or sunrise) the sun is very low in the sky. This means, effectively, that the light from the sun has to travel through more of the earth's atmosphere to reach our eyes.
Esparta
The sun emits light in the main colours of red, green, blue, ultraviolet. Red has the longest wavelength, which is bigger than most of the molecules in the atmosphere. As a result, red light passes straight through air molecules, it doesn't get reflected somewhere else (or 'scattered'). So red light travels in a straight line to our eyes.
Blue and green light have shorter wave-lengths, so they get scattered more easily. The more atmosphere they pass through, the more scattering happens. When the sun is low in the sky the blue and green light simply can't travel straight to our eyes because they get read more...
Esparta
The sun emits light in the main colours of red, green, blue, ultraviolet. Red has the longest wavelength, which is bigger than most of the molecules in the atmosphere. As a result, red light passes straight through air molecules, it doesn't get reflected somewhere else (or 'scattered'). So red light travels in a straight line to our eyes.
Blue and green light have shorter wave-lengths, so they get scattered more easily. The more atmosphere they pass through, the more scattering happens. When the sun is low in the sky the blue and green light simply can't travel straight to our eyes because they get read more...
answer by Scavenger 4 years ago
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Have Any Average Joe's Ever Become Kings?
5 months ago - 1 answer
Kings are usually either born in to their royalty or they take royalty, chop off its head and sit on its throne. History is filled with stories of men ascending to the throne and ruling those below them with an iron fist. Some of these stories are glorious and gory, but there are other stories of ascension that are along the lines of a random dude just wandering in to your living room and declaring the land “Randomdudeonia” and setting up a thrown in front of your couch as if you weren’t even sitting in it.
These are those men…
Baron James A. Harden-Hickey James Harden-Hickey was a man of great intelligence and education. In his life he wrote 11 books, one of which was a suicide how to guide, Euthanasia: The Aesthetics of Suicide, for those that didn’t quite understand the subtle read more...
These are those men…
Baron James A. Harden-Hickey James Harden-Hickey was a man of great intelligence and education. In his life he wrote 11 books, one of which was a suicide how to guide, Euthanasia: The Aesthetics of Suicide, for those that didn’t quite understand the subtle read more...
answer by Limpl0uie 4 months ago
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Why Do We See Rainbows After Rain?
4 years ago - 7 answers
Rainbows occur after rainfall or near a huge waterfall or fountain) because what we are seeing is sunlight which is being refracted by raindrops or drops of water.
theresaashmore
Refraction is when light is bent, as is is passing from one medium to another. So with a rainbow we have light from the sun which is basically being seen through water, millions of tiny droplets usually. The arch of the rainbow is because it is bening bent over a series of angles.
The reason that we see red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo and violet is because it is a near continuous spectrum of light in the sky.
Frequently rainbows are actually double rainbows, although the second rainbow may not always be ver visible. The second is always much fainter than the first and the colours bend round in the opposite read more...
theresaashmore
Refraction is when light is bent, as is is passing from one medium to another. So with a rainbow we have light from the sun which is basically being seen through water, millions of tiny droplets usually. The arch of the rainbow is because it is bening bent over a series of angles.
The reason that we see red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo and violet is because it is a near continuous spectrum of light in the sky.
Frequently rainbows are actually double rainbows, although the second rainbow may not always be ver visible. The second is always much fainter than the first and the colours bend round in the opposite read more...
answer by Hedgehog 4 years ago
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Why Does Lightning Always Come Before Thunder?
3 years ago - 12 answers
During a storm, there is a discrepancy between areas of air between regions of warm and cold. This causes frictional forces to build up, which sometimes creates an electrical spark. This is lightning.
Axel Rouvin
At the same time, sound energy is produced by the friction between the different regions of air. This is heard a few seconds later as a clap of thunder. Thunder always follows along a little later because light travels faster than sound.
The speed of light in air is 299,792,458 metres per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km h-1). The speed of sound in air is At sea level, at a temperature of 15 C (59 F) and under normal atmospheric conditions is 340 m s-1 (1225 km h-1or 761 mph).
The electrical discharge created by a bolt of lightning can be very destructive and it can kill. When caught read more...
Axel Rouvin
At the same time, sound energy is produced by the friction between the different regions of air. This is heard a few seconds later as a clap of thunder. Thunder always follows along a little later because light travels faster than sound.
The speed of light in air is 299,792,458 metres per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km h-1). The speed of sound in air is At sea level, at a temperature of 15 C (59 F) and under normal atmospheric conditions is 340 m s-1 (1225 km h-1or 761 mph).
The electrical discharge created by a bolt of lightning can be very destructive and it can kill. When caught read more...
answer by Kath18 3 years ago
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