I think that if there are people who speak the language, even if in a merely academic context, a Wikipedia is worthwhile. What about the Latin Wikipedia?
It depends on what you call 'speak the language'. I want to be sure that there are people who _use_ the language, that is, communicate in it. For example, if there is a journal that comes out once a year, where articles are written in Gothic.
But in this case I have the feeling that 'speak the language' means that they _know_ the language, and the only use of the language is to read centuries old texts that were written in Gothic or as an object of study itself. And then I don't think a Wikipedia is worthwhile.
Regarding Latin: It's still being used on a daily basis in the Roman Catholic church, for one thing.
Andre Engels
Well, there are webpages in Gothic for one, there's some short poetry in it written very recently, and a good portion of the e-mails on gothic-l are written partially or fully in Gothic.
As to whether or not there is any modern usage of Gothic offline: I cannot tell you. It's a secret. (no, really it's because I don't know)
--node
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:45:36 +0200, Andre Engels andrewiki@freemail.nl wrote:
I think that if there are people who speak the language, even if in a merely academic context, a Wikipedia is worthwhile. What about the Latin Wikipedia?
It depends on what you call 'speak the language'. I want to be sure that there are people who _use_ the language, that is, communicate in it. For example, if there is a journal that comes out once a year, where articles are written in Gothic.
But in this case I have the feeling that 'speak the language' means that they _know_ the language, and the only use of the language is to read centuries old texts that were written in Gothic or as an object of study itself. And then I don't think a Wikipedia is worthwhile.
Regarding Latin: It's still being used on a daily basis in the Roman Catholic church, for one thing.
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