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

[Mark Williamson]

I will say it again: "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

On 25/06/05, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
> 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
> 


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