[Wikipedia-l] German Wikipedia

[Larry Sanger]

From: Sonic <sonic at arcormail.de>
To: deutsch-l at nupedia.com
Subject: Re: [Deutsch-L]Deutsch Wikipedia
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:23:42 +0100
Reply-To: deutsch-l at nupedia.com

Larry Sanger schrieb:

> Please see
> http://deutsche.wikipedia.com/
>
> Should this be
> deutsche.wikipedia.com or
> deutsch.wikipedia.com ?
>
> The latter, I thought.  Oder?

either the latter or simply de.wikipedia.com (which is the ccTLD and
used for
many German divisions of international sites (like de.yahoo.com)). Both
versions sound funny, because deutsche implies a female gender while
Wikipedia is no German word and thus has no gender (of course you could
create one, but it still sounds strange), while "deutsch" has no
grammatical
relation to "Wikipedia" at all (in German, two nouns cannot be placed
next to
each other).


Bye,

A.f.