Hi Mark, everyone,
What has been the case was
*basing the spelling on the dictionaries of Old English Made Easy, which is based on Clark
Hall's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon, as well as further expansion from the Bosworth and
Toller dictionary. There was one spelling for one word, to attempt to avoid confusion for
new readers. The spelling is early West Saxon.
* macrons instead of accents for long vowels (I wasn't too much in favor of that, but
that's over and done with)
* avoid dotted c/g for compatibility and that the language rules essentially let you know
when it is or isn't a palatal consonant
*Use 'y' as a front vowel like German ü, not in place of 'i' and avoid
'ie' when 'i' is historically accurate
Some scholars use late West Saxon, but that is a little more mixed, so we kept with Early
West Saxon. This is the practice for about 4 years now on the OE wiki.
James
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From: "Mark Williamson" <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
And I think that is what somebody else is doing on
this thread.
The Old English Wikipedia exists, it is not going anywhere soon, so
let's stop criticising it, shall we?
Now, what is the standard for writing Old English within the scholarly
community? If there is no consensus, which system is the most widely
used? There is your answer.
Mark
On 02/04/2008, Mike R <tacodeposit(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:39 AM, James Robert
Johnson
<modean52(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Hey everyone,
I usually troll on here, reading, but not participating in
discussions,
The word is "lurk." "Troll" means something else.
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