Hoi, As Old English is dead language, a Wikipedia can only be created by modifying the language with newly created words. This makes the language different from what the language used to be. Standardising a dead language by imposing a particular orthography in order to write new content in that language also morphs the language into something that it never was.
There is a Wikipedia in Old English and I regret this.
Thanks, GerardM
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:39 PM, James Robert Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
Hey everyone,
I usually troll on here, reading, but not participating indiscussions, but I wanted to ask something. Old English is a dead language, yet has a living Wikipedia. For this wiki, we essentially use Early West Saxon, but the original language never had a single standard spelling. What does everyone think about using a standardized spelling for this language, as used in the Clark Hall dictionary of Anglo Saxon? I welcome any comments.
James
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