Hoi,
I do oppose Ancient Greek.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 February 2017 at 11:50, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The issue is that grc developped over time and consequently what standard
> > should be followed?
>
> Gerard, allowing Wikipedias in (non-Esperanto scale) constructed
> languages immediately triggers the fact that there are much more
> people capable to communicate in Ancient Greek than in any constructed
> language.
>
> If you are worried about the lexicon, contemporary users Ancient Greek
> could do the same as Ancient Greeks: to borrow a word from Latin,
> which is a living language; or they could simply make a Modern Greek
> word to look like an Ancient Greek one.
>
> I mean, if we are approving projects just because they are elaborate
> intellectual games, there is no difference if it's about a constructed
> or a classical language. OK, it would be hard to invent modern
> vocabulary in Sumerian, but Ancient Greek is not at all that hard
> (while Ottoman Turkish and Classical Chinese have concepts of train,
> steel, steam engine, electricity...); and possibly even easier than in
> a constructed language.
>
> I am all for lowering the criteria, but that should be systematic. If
> our criteria is "usefulness", Ancient Greek would easily pass (the
> most of bigger universities in the world have course in Ancient
> Greek). If our criteria is "any language with ISO 639-3 code",
> Sumerian passes, as well. And keep in mind that LFN is in between, as
> it's definitely less useful than Ancient Greek, but we could say that
> it is "useful enough".
>
> A note for Jan: Latin is a living language, while Anglo-Saxon and Old
> Church Slavonic, for example, have been created before Language
> committee and, according to the present rules, they wouldn't be
> allowed.
>
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