Hi,
Thanks for the replies! It is kind of true what Ron/Waerth say, there are
issues with the orthography, on one of my dialect sites I use a common
orthography for Low Saxon (AS; Algemene Schryvwyse), but some people in
the Netherlands/Germany won't understand that, unless you tell them how
it works. Dutch Low Saxon people now don't really go to the Low Saxon
Wikipedia because they don't understand it and prefer to use the Dutch
one instead, which is quite understandable because the Nds site looks
more like German to us than Nds.
I've reconstructed the Low Saxon mainpage in my dialect for you to see
how it looks and see what the problems are with it.
(
http://nds.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruker:Servien/Heufdpagina).
(Mark: I've already put some articles in my dialect on the Nds.wikipedia
but most people don't understand that, so that's actually a waste.)
Regards,
Servien Ilaino!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Williamson"
To: wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Request for creation of Dutch-Low Saxon
(nds-nl)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:20:35 -0700
For more on Missingsch, please see
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missingsch or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missingsch
Mark
On 25/06/05, Mark Williamson wrote:
> From Rohn.
>
> And he *is* a native speaker.
>
> Mark
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: R. F. Hahn
> Date: 25-Jun-2005 21:41
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Request for creation of Dutch-Low
Saxon (nds-nl)
> To: Mark Williamson
>
> --- Mark Williamson wrote:
>
> > (forwarded to Reinhart (Ron) Hahn to get his opinion)
> >
> > [Some basic background on the issue for Ron: As you know there
is
> > already a Low Saxon Wikipedia. Somebody just
requested a "Dutch
Low
> > Saxon" Wikipedia, complaining that
nds.wiki is in "German Low
Saxon".
> > I expressed a few concerns, not least among
them that in a case
of a
> > dialect continuum, it will be difficult for
us to decide where
to draw
> > lines between varieties, and which varieties
should get their
own
> > Wikipedias.]
> >
> > Concerns that nobody has responded to yet:
> >
> > * As I noted before, it is a dialect continuum. Stellingwarfs
and
> > Middel-pommersch are surely not easily
mutually intelligible,
but
> > Grunnegers and Oostfreesk very well should
be.
> >
> > * Dividing Platt along national boundaries is illogical. If we
had an
> > Oostfreesk Wikipedia, Grunnegers-speakers
would surely
understand it
> > and vice-versa, even though Grunnegers is in
the Netherlands
and
> > Oostfreesk is mostly in Germany. There are
no definite borders
between
> > one and the next, and the national border is
just as arbitrary
as any.
> >
> > This would also mean that a man from the tiny village of Laar
(in
> > Germany) would use a different Wikipedia
than a man from the
tiny
> > village of Gramsbergen (in the Netherlands),
even though
they're about
> > 4km (~2.5mi) apart and their speech is
identical. Does this
make much
> > sense?
> >
> > * A case of a dialect continuum is a very new thing for us. We
have no
> > experience with it so far, or we have
crammed them all into a
single
> > Wikipedia.
> >
> > Mark
>
> Hi, Mark!
>
> Thanks for forwarding this. It all makes a lot of sense to me.
>
> I would find it very regrettable if the language were separated
along the
> political border, though I know quite a few
people that would
welcome it.
>
> In the case of Low Saxon, what is at the root of the problem is
> orthography. In Germany it is based on German principles, in the
> Netherlands on Dutch principles. While most people in the
Netherlands
> have some German, the Dutch-based system is quite
incomprehensible to the
> majority of people in Germany. However, this is
not to say that
the
> German-based system ought to be used. I
personally hate it for
several
> reasons, and I am not alone. It is not emotional
but because the
system
> is very poorly suited, does not make many
necessary phonemic
distinctions
> and thus teaches learners faulty pronunciation,
which it has done
already.
> However, this is a very contentious issue,
because the vast
majority of
> Low Saxon speakers are older, conservative and
narrow-minded,
plus
> uneducated in anything linguistic, hanging on to
myths and false
> assumption, such as orthographic standardization being designed
to
> artificially created a single standard language,
when
orthographic
> standardization has nothing to do with language
standardization,
only with
> facilitating mutual reading comprehension. So we
are up against a
monster
> here.
>
> It doesn't help that language competency is wanting in the
current
> WikiPlatt team. Those folks are enthusiastic, and
I laud that.
But they
> don't know the language well enough. Much or
most of it is
"Patentplatt"
> (based on Missingsch), i.e. invented on the basis
of German. I am
not at
> all opposed to introducing technical neologisms,
but there needs
to be
> first of all a firm grasp of the basic language,
the grammar and
the
> authentic idiom.
>
> It would be best -- if doable -- to have an international team
work on
> this and use a type of compromise orthography
that is easily
accessible to
> all.
>
> Thanks for your engagement in all of this.
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
> Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn
> Seattle, USA
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