So it seems. Yet it's dictated by a simple fact: a dead language is taught to access existing sources and to learn the evolution of language.
If you add a transistor radio to the Cro-Magnon section of a museum you're going to pollute that section with improper content.
Bèrto d Sèra Personagi dlann 2006 për larvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojàotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:16 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia
That seems to be a double standard.
On 11/07/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, When a living language creates new concepts it is completely different
from
the creation of extinct languages. I am not bothered by for instance Cherokee finding a need for new vocabulary. I am bothered by this same
need
for extinct languages. Thanks, GerardM
On 7/11/07, Roberto Bahamonde Andrade chilotin@gmail.com wrote:
However, there are many cases on communities can't avoid that "original research". Many American languages (Quechua, Náhuatl, Cherokee) haven't words for "edit", "talk page" or "internet", then is necessary find the form of say such concepts. One way to solve it is paraphrasis and another way is the borrowing of a word of English or Spanish and adapt it to phonetics
of
the language. No matter the way used, the community of Wikipedians had made original research.
Bye.
2007/7/5, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, In the language committee we are not really happy with artificial languages or with languages long dead that are given a new lease of life because
"we
can". In dead languages you have to do original research in order to
be
able to name the concepts that are modern and foreign to that language as
we
know it. Wikipedia is not about original research and you have to create
new
words and in the process change the language in order to write an encyclopaedia that is to be used in this day and age. Thanks, Gerard
On 7/5/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Berto 'd Sera wrote:
Seriously, how would you manage? Do we call up the mobs to scream
and
swear
as we did before, or do we nominate 7 Valencian and 7 Catalan
Knights
and
make it a Royal Tournament? That's all the choice you're given,
you
know?
You EITHER choose an external reference OR choose yourself.
If you're deferring to an external authority to avoid conflict, or
to
reduce workload, then that's fine. Just don't say you're doing it
because
you want to follow the "no original research" policy. Most Wikipedia policies are common sense. NOR is probably the only one which would
be
disasterous if it were generalised to life outside Wikipedia.
-- Tim Starling
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