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(a)stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

Hi Mark, Le Tuesday 4 January 2005 00:25, Mark Williamson a écrit : Please stop spreading FUD. Requests are not well received when they are sent by YOU, that the point. Regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

Mark Williamson wrote: Mark, You are like an old record, stuck in the same phrases time and again. You have annoyed and insulted many people and you are unappologetic about it. Slander is also a bit much, you may not like what Yann said about you, but similar things have been said by many. As to you proposing new languages, even that is not really the whole point. When a language is proposed you have to weigh in every time with what you think is the opinion of the people on the list and give it no time to form about what is asked/proposed. When you ask questions as you did about how the old Norse will be written etc they are often good and valid questions. Take some time to build some credit and try to be nice, not insult people. Another thing you could do is appreciate the positions of others. People do not have to agree with you and they may still achieve things that even you think are worthwhile. Thanks, GerardM

Vegard Aukrust wrote: As far as I know, Swedish linguists divide the development of the Swedish language roughly into: --1225 Old Norse (fornnordiska), a pan-Scandinavian language 1225--1526 Old Swedish (fornsvenska), starting to differ from Danish 1526-- Modern Swedish (nysvenska), beginning with the New Testament I guess the same goes for Danish and Norwegian? I have no idea of how useful a Wikipedia in Old Norse will be, how you will find a norm for correct spelling, how you will invent words for new innovations, or if you will draw a line at 1225. In Sweden, very few written documents in Old Norse are available. Much that was written when Christianity was new here, was written in Latin, while Old Norse was mostly spoken. There are far more written documents in Old Swedish, including diaries, chronicles, poetry, contracts, laws and partial translations of the Bible. If you think you can write an encyclopedia in Old Norse, I think you should go ahead. Perhaps expanding the current article on the [[en:Old Norse language]] could be a good start? If it is of any help, I have digitized the first 10 years (1883-1894) of "Arkiv for nordisk filologi" at http://runeberg.org/anf/ -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

Since Old Norse has the ISO code non, I'm sure the subdomain would be non:, regardless. Mark On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:32:26 +0100, James R. Johnson <modean52(a)comcast.net> wrote: