[Wikipedia-l] Request for creation of Dutch-Low Saxon (nds-nl)

[Walter van Kalken]

Mark Williamson wrote:

>As I noted before, it is a dialect continuum.
>
>Stellingwarfs and Middel-pommersch are surely not mutually
>intelligible, but Grunnegers and Oostfreesk very well should be.
>
>You are foolishly dividing Platt by nations. This is illogical. If we
>had an Oostfreesk Wikipedia, Grunnegers-speakers would surely
>understand it and vice-versa, even though Grunnegers is in the
>Netherlands and Oostfreesk is mostly in Germany.
>
>The problem of dialect continuum is a very difficult one.
>
>HOWEVER, given the community reaction to a request for a Baseldytsch
>Wikipedia, I think the same is logical for a request for a "Dutch Low
>Saxon" Wikipedia -- your language may be different to whatever degree
>than what many people on X Wikipedia use, but there is no rule
>forbidding its use. There is no rule against writing pages and pages
>and pages of content on nds.wiki in Stellingwarfs or Achterhooks. When
>I suggested doing this, I got a cold response that Dutch Low Saxon and
>German Low Saxon aren't mutually intelligible. Before whinging to us
>about that, can you at least actually try to use your dialect on
>nds.wiki to prove to us that it really doesn't work?
>
>Mark
>
>  
>
Mark here we go again. It has plenty of support and someone reacted to 
your arguments. You do not speak it. So how can you judge?

Walter/Waerth