A good rule of thumb for 'enough people' is five people interested in maintaining it, each of whom is somewhat familiar with the language, and at least one of whom is well versed in it.
I assume you know some Pennsylvania Dutch yourself?
--SJ, reminded of an HL Mencken book from the early 20th century that went over the major dialects in the US and their vocabulary quirks in surprising detail. (If you know the one I'm talking about, please remind me of its title)
On 8/14/05, Jtkiefer jtkiefer@wordzen.net wrote:
Josh Campfield wrote:
I wrote last year sometime about the possibility of adding a wikipedia in Pennsylvania German/Pennsylvania Dutch. You said discuss it on the Village Pump. I just put a message out on there asking what do other people think. Pending what they say, what do you think about doing this? It's a rapidly dying language, and besides perhaps helping to revive it, the Wikipedia would have the distinction of being the first encyclopedia ever published in Pennsylvania German. The ISO 3-letter code is pdc.
Thanks!
Josh Campfield joshcampfield@gmail.com
It's an interesting idea but I don't think you'd be able to find enough people willing to add to it, edit it, and maintain it.
-Jtkiefer
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On 14/08/05, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
--SJ, reminded of an HL Mencken book from the early 20th century that went over the major dialects in the US and their vocabulary quirks in surprising detail. (If you know the one I'm talking about, please remind me of its title)
Would this perhaps be the excellent /The American Language/? Admittedly I can only remember the parts dealing with the English language, but that may just be reader bias.
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