Hoi,
When a living language creates new concepts it is completely different from
the creation of extinct languages. I am not bothered by for instance
Cherokee finding a need for new vocabulary. I am bothered by this same need
for extinct languages.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7/11/07, Roberto Bahamonde Andrade <chilotin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, there are many cases on communities can't avoid that "original
research". Many American languages (Quechua, Náhuatl, Cherokee) haven't
words for "edit", "talk page" or "internet", then is
necessary find the
form
of say such concepts. One way to solve it is paraphrasis and another way
is
the borrowing of a word of English or Spanish and adapt it to phonetics of
the language. No matter the way used, the community of Wikipedians had
made
original research.
Bye.
2007/7/5, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
In the language committee we are not really happy with artificial
languages
or with languages long dead that are given a new lease of life because
"we
can". In dead languages you have to do
original research in order to be
able
to name the concepts that are modern and foreign to that language as we
know
it. Wikipedia is not about original research and you have to create new
words and in the process change the language in order to write an
encyclopaedia that is to be used in this day and age.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 7/5/07, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Berto 'd Sera wrote:
> > Seriously, how would you manage? Do we call up the mobs to scream
and
> swear
> > as we did before, or do we nominate 7 Valencian and 7 Catalan
Knights
and
make it a Royal Tournament? That's all the
choice you're given, you
know?
You EITHER
choose an external reference
OR
choose yourself.
If you're deferring to an external authority to avoid conflict, or to
reduce workload, then that's fine. Just don't say you're doing it
because
you want to follow the "no original
research" policy. Most Wikipedia
policies are common sense. NOR is probably the only one which would be
disasterous if it were generalised to life outside Wikipedia.
-- Tim Starling
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