Hello,
As for me, i think it would be wonderfull to have a free, open and rich old Norsk basis like Wikipedia. I have been trying to learn Islandic in France, because I want to learn Old Norks and read the eddas in their own language ( I am fon dof philology) and it is quite difficult to find books or resorces in this old language. You know Tolkien started to learn Old norsk when he was 32 old, as a curious human spirit, and what he learn, cumulated to his large knwoledge in German and English families of language, permitted to créate a new fantastic world : his own historico-imaginative world. Borgès, too, learn old Norks, and his dream of a Babel Library is a metaphore of what the internet is actualyy for a part, and what he could be :) So, it would be a pity not to use internet and Wikipedia to support thos luck to approach wonderfull old language an d perhaps fertilize the futur with human transformation.
Languages are not dead if there is on human who gets pleasure to pronounce, read, write with it...It can become esoteric for most people but internet could serve to give another luck to many languages and many human cultures.
Best regards
Pascale
Mark Williamson a écrit :
What I meant is that now isn't really a good time for language proposals - they don't seem to be well-recieved, especially if they're for "dead" languages.
Mark
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:02:25 +0100, Vegard Aukrust vegara@stud.ntnu.no wrote:
I will use the modified latin alphabeth. Old norse is not so different from modern icelandic and often mistaken as that, but I want to use the same language the one you find in Norwegian texts from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. I don't find it more strange than latin, anglo-saxon or a lot of other old langiages. The letters which are not used in modern English are as follows: æ, o, ð and þ (but not ä, ö, ø or å as in modern scandinavian).
Vegard Aukrust
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Williamson" node.ue@gmail.com To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Old norse
*cough*
I'm not sure the current environment is the best place for a request regarding Old Norse. But anyhow, I have a question: will you use the runic script, or the latin script?
Anyhow, my suggestion is that you first write a few articles off-site, and if you can try to find people who will help build the Wikipedia.
Mark
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:57:03 +0100, Vegard Aukrust vegara@stud.ntnu.no wrote:
I want to start a Wikipedia page in old norse (gamalnorska), and I suggest the language code "gno".
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