In fact it would be required (the Germans say "Deutsch" on their WP, not
"German").
I'm eagerly anticipating the article on web browsers ("the knowledge
sea-soarers").
Stan
James R. Johnson wrote:
Anglo-Saxon. You got it. On an
ang/wikipedia.org,
would it be alright to
use the lanugage's own name for itself? (Englisc)
James
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Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: FW: Wikipedia for Old English
James R. Johnson wrote:
Sorry - there have been about 6 million speakers
at the height of
usage of Old English. I guess it's like Latin in being a dead
language, but just as deserving of a Wiki.
I am strongly in favour of a Wikipedia in the language that has the ISO code
'ang' -- but *PLEASE DO NOT* call it "Old English". Call it
"Anglo-Saxon".
Please. Seriously. That's very important.
If you call it "Old English", people will constantly attempt to write
articles in Shakespearean, which is early Modern English.
Timwi
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