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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby kibo » 2012-06-29, 13:16

1. The name could be "Ancient, Classical and Extinct Languages", I think that covers everything :P

2. These are the already existing topics that should be moved to this forum:

From the Other languages subforum in the Language-specific forum.

Ancient Hawaiian - Orero Tahito Havaii
old afro-asiatic
Akkadian
Middle High German - Diutsch
Old Norse - there are 3 seperate threads for that for some unknown reason (first, second, third)
Dalmatian
Old church slavonic
Ge'ez - Classical Ethiopic [ ግዕዝ - ልሳነ፡ኢትዮጵያ። ]
Gothic
Coptic/Egyptian
Prussian (Prūsiskan)

In the Greek forum

ἑλληνὶς γλῶττα - ancient Greek

If you know any (already existing!) thread that should be here, please add it to this list, I doubt I found everything.

3. The Latin forum should stay separate for now due to its fairly decent level of activity.
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[flag=]es[/flag] ➜ C1 (DELE)
[flag=]de[/flag] ➜ B2 (Goethe-Zertifikat) / C1
[flag=]sv[/flag] ➜ B1/B2

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby Remis » 2012-06-29, 13:56

kibo wrote:1. The name could be "Ancient, Classical and Extinct Languages", I think that covers everything :P
Awesome. :mrgreen:
Old Norse - there are 3 seperate threads for that for some unknown reason
I don't know about the first two, but I started the third one because the newest one was pretty much buried five pages back or so and hadn't had any activity since what amounts to the Fall of Rome in forum-years (I grew up with forums where grave-digging is considered a good reason for giving a warning :roll: ).
If you know any (already existing!) thread that should be here, please add it to this list, I doubt I found everything.
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby JackFrost » 2012-06-29, 14:09

Let's not forget about the Old English thread. :mrgreen:
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby Lur » 2012-06-29, 15:07

There's an Old Irish thread too.
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-29, 22:12

kibo wrote:1. The name could be "Ancient, Classical and Extinct Languages", I think that covers everything :P

Sounds good to me.

3. The Latin forum should stay separate for now due to its fairly decent level of activity.

That sounds fair. Could you also move the two word games I created in the Latin forum to the new forum when it's created? That would be the "Ancient Word Game" and "Ancient Alphabet Game." Thanks kibo! :D

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby Meera » 2012-07-02, 21:43

księżycowy wrote:Yeah, I think Sanskrit should be included. Really that would be the great thing about a sub-forum like this, any ancient language could be included. :)


That would be awesome. :mrgreen: I hope a forum is made, I would be really interested in Languages like Bablyonian and Ancient Egptian and Hitttie.
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby księżycowy » 2012-07-02, 23:14

Meera wrote:That would be awesome. :mrgreen: I hope a forum is made, I would be really interested in Languages like Bablyonian and Ancient Egptian and Hitttie.

:yep: :yep: :yep:

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby kibo » 2012-07-02, 23:19

It's quite certain it will be created.

Tomorrow though. :P
Goals:
[flag=]es[/flag] ➜ C1 (DELE)
[flag=]de[/flag] ➜ B2 (Goethe-Zertifikat) / C1
[flag=]sv[/flag] ➜ B1/B2

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby księżycowy » 2012-07-02, 23:48

kibo wrote:It's quite certain it will be created.

Tomorrow though. :P

I think I can wait a day! :P

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby kibo » 2012-07-03, 7:33

Done! :)
Goals:
[flag=]es[/flag] ➜ C1 (DELE)
[flag=]de[/flag] ➜ B2 (Goethe-Zertifikat) / C1
[flag=]sv[/flag] ➜ B1/B2

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby Remis » 2012-07-03, 13:11

Awesome! Thanks, Kibo. :mrgreen:
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby sa wulfs » 2012-07-03, 13:20

I think dumping them all together is overkill. There are certain ancient languages that are more likely to interest the same kind of people, so you could have "Ancient Germanic languages" for people who are into Germanistics, "Ancient Romance languages" for Romance philologists and afficionados, etc. As it stands now, it's a subforum that, for any given forumer, will contain 90% of info they have zero interest in, and chances are many will skip the subforum altogether.

At least make subforums within the subforum or something.
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby księżycowy » 2012-07-03, 13:43

sa wulfs wrote:At least make subforums within the subforum or something.

I'm not sure if that would be possible, but it's a good idea if it can be done. Though that might lead to the question of why the NAIL and CSAIL forum aren't like that. And those forums work fine with all those languages lumped together.

As it stands now, I think the subforum is fine. In any given subforum there are tons of threads I have no interest in and I still use them. I highly doubt that would deter anyone from using it.

I do understand you're speaking from a linguistic standpoint, btw.

Though I could be wrong. :whistle:

EDIT: Maybe we could make some threads/stickys of some of the major groups/languages?

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby Meera » 2012-07-03, 19:22

Yay! Thanks Kibo! :mrgreen:
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby kibo » 2012-07-03, 19:48

You're welcome! :)

księżycowy wrote:As it stands now, I think the subforum is fine. In any given subforum there are tons of threads I have no interest in and I still use them. I highly doubt that would deter anyone from using it.


Exactly. If the philologists/afficionados for the XY ancient language want a separate subforum, they will first have to increase the activity and then we can talk about creating subforums.
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[flag=]es[/flag] ➜ C1 (DELE)
[flag=]de[/flag] ➜ B2 (Goethe-Zertifikat) / C1
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby sa wulfs » 2012-07-04, 18:30

Since the names of these catch-all subforums are pretty arbitrary, could they not be listed in alphabetical order with all the rest? Could they appear either at the beginning or at the end of the list, preferably with some visual separation?
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby księżycowy » 2012-07-05, 14:13

Since we have the Ancient Languages subforum out of the way, how about Caucasian and African subforums? :P

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby ffrench » 2012-07-05, 17:59

Seconded. And Australian Aboriginal languages would be pretty snazzy too, although I understand that it's a rather minor non-priority.

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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby Johanna » 2012-07-05, 18:32

Will those forums get any activity though, apart from a few game threads?

We don't want more dead or zombie forums, that's why we made all those merges in the first place.
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Re: Ancient Languages subforum?

Postby Struthiomimus » 2012-07-06, 0:05

ffrench wrote:And Australian Aboriginal languages would be pretty snazzy too, although I understand that it's a rather minor non-priority.


Yes! Seconded, thirded...(n+1)thed!

Johanna wrote:Will those forums get any activity though, apart from a few game threads?


An Australian Languages Forum (or ALF) would. I've been posting to the Warlpiri thread for years, and that's without any game threads :) And there are others interested in Aussie languages. If nothing else, an Aussie language forum would help with organization, because the Warlpiri, Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte, Awabakal and Kalaw Lagaw Ya threads could all be located together in one place, instead of lost in the sea that is the Other Languages section. So, pretty please? :doggy:

As far as a Caucasian forum, I dunno, but for the African languages forum, couldn't you just convert the Swahili forum and move the relevant Other Language threads to it (Wolof, Twi, etc.)? Something similar was done when the Lakota forum became the NAIL forum.
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