[Foundation-l] STOP DOUBLE STANDARD!!! OR HYPOCRESY!!!

[Crazy Lover]

First of all: native speakers mean that the language is spoke by babies!!!. no babies speak latin or ancient greek.
 
Artificial or constructed languages are the ones that are invented by someone from scratch.
latin will always be considered ancient, even if it is used in modern times, not artificial.
 
cml.
 
--- On Wed, 9/3/08, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] STOP DOUBLE STANDARD!!! OR HYPOCRESY!!!
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 8:26 PM

It's different.

There are latin speakers in the Vatican for example.

"De facto" (ops... latin) this is not the "classic" latin
language but 
it's a modified language ("ecclesiatic" latin) which can be
considered 
like an artificial language.

For this reason it can be compared with the Esperanto and the wikinews 
can be accepted because:

"/If the proposal is for an artificial language such as Esperanto 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto>, it must have a reasonable 
degree of recognition as determined by discussion".

/In any case a community can be present 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin#Modern_use_of_Latin).

Ilario

Marcus Buck wrote:
>
> There's nothing wrong with it except that it does not meet the 
> requirements of the language proposal policy for new projects 
> (<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy>). That
policy 
> asks for native speakers. That is nonsense, imho, but that's the text
of 
> the policy.
>
> Slomox
> Marcus Buck
>   
>
>
>   

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