Contemporary language.

[Fredrik]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Justïn <justinelf at ...> wrote:
>
> This is quite an impressive list, actually.  I do understand in a 
few
> places where other Gothic revivalists might disagree with you,
> particularly in the zero - zairo choice, it seems Gothic might learn
> more towards German's "null" but I'm new to reconstruction myself, 
so
> that with a grain of salt!
> 

I agree with you that smth like null would be better.
This list is almost a year old and I will soon change it to a new 
version with more words and some changes. One is tuga instead of 
tauhja for train.

> I believe we need a definitive society like French's L'Acadamie
> Française to censor, standardise, and oversee the reconstruction of
> Gothic if it would ever be a language capable of everyday use, if 
even
> a local standardisation used among the [relatively] few of us who 
are
> interested in reviving the language.
> 

I think so too. But why not give this group a function like that?


> Standardisation and vocabulary expansion are the two musts found in
> all language revival attempts, we are fortunate in that while we 
have
> relatively few documents to work with, we do not have anywhere near
> the amount of quibbling over dialect that the Celtic revivalists are
> still going through with Cornish, Irish, etc.
> 

A important thing is how to create new words. I think it would be 
better if everyone who wanna make neologisms make them in the same 
way.
Here's how I think about it.
Words which probably existed but is not attested I recunstruct from a 
assumed protogermanic form. I think there is no attested word for 
salmon and in pgmc it probably was *lahsaz, we can also assume gothic 
had a word for salmon and then it wouldve been *lahs.
Other words which most probably did not exist, such as TV and 
computer, I use icelandic and sometimes german as model.
Calques are also something I think could be useful.

> Are there any attempts to actually PUBLISH a volume of neologisms or
> reconstructed grammars, or to found a Gothic-Revival society or
> academic council?
> 
> PS: Please continue to post your personal neologisms to this thread,
> anyone.  Maybe we can begin something interesting or fun.
>


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