Uhh... what about Hebrew? Manchu? Manx? Cornish? Since when do languages not revive successfully by teaching them to children?
--node
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:00:11 -0500, Phil Sandifer sandifer@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Actually, if history is any indication, the effort will go nowhere, the language will stay dead, and a Gothic Wikipedia will be nothing more than a curiosity. Then again, we have a Klingon one.
-Snowspinner
On Sep 16, 2004, at 10:59 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:
I know plenty of people *can* speak/write Gothic, I just don't know that they *do*.
However the movement to bring Gothic back to life as a language with native speakers, which I mentioned before, will undoubtedly result in quite a few children who will in the future want to read encyclopedias in Gothic as their preferred language.
Best, Mark/Jin Junshu
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:08:02 +0200, Andre Engels andrewiki@freemail.nl wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:18:09 +0000 Fredrik Adevåg gadrauhts@hotmail.com wrote:
I'd like to be responsible for the creation of a wikipediaversion in gothic.
Full name: gothic
Language code: got
Number of speakers: 0
Number of people which has knowledge about gothic: at least 400, probably much more.
I still am very wary about putting Wikipedia in dead languages. Reason is that in my opinion the first function of Wikipedia is to bring over the information content in the articles; the language, in my opinion, is just a means to do this, it should not be a goal in its own. Because, as far as I can see, nobody would _prefer_ to have Gothic as the language in which s/he gets this information, I don't think having a Gothic Wikipedia aids in this goal (and yes, there are languages in which Wikipedia already exists with which I have the same objections).
My doubts would be much lessened if you could give me evidence that the language is actually used - in the sense of being written/spoken rather than just read. I would like to ask this:
Can you specify a body of literature written in Gothic, from recent date (say, after World War II)?
Andre Engels
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