Introduction

[Fredrik]

Hails!

If you wanna make some neologisms, I'd like to see those coz i'm 
tryin to make a neoligism dictionary. I haven't any word for 
telephone yet, but your idea might work. I have already faírrasiuns 
for TV. For new gothic words I use german and icelandic as model, 
mostly.

/Fredrik

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "tsvstani" <tsvstani at y...> wrote:
> As requested here is a brief introduction on myself. I am a 
linguist 
> living in Florida, and a Cherokee Indian. I have an extensive 
> background in Germanic linguistics as well as other language. I am 
> currently working to revitalize my language, Cherokee, which 
luckily 
> has not suffered the same fate as Gothic. I think it would be quite 
> cool to create a modern version of the language, this actually 
would 
> not be that hard. We can use other Germanic languages to help coin 
> new words, since many of them have the same roots as Gothic 
> underlying a number of modern concepts. For example in German, one 
> of the words for telephone is 'Fernsprecher', 'that which speaks 
> far'. We could do something similar with Gothic to create a word 
for 
> telephone. Just an idea. I am currently working to compile all 
known 
> Gothic terms into a dictionary to be published in pdf document. 
> Unlike other dictionaries, words in this dictionary will actually 
be 
> listed IN THE GOTHIC alphabet, instead of transliterated. I dont 
get 
> why people do that. We have the same problem in Cherokee, where 
> people often do not even write the word in the Cherokee writing 
> system (a syllabary), but just give the transliteration in Latin 
> letters. I find this very annoying to say the least.
> 
> 
> Fraternally,
> 
> Gotlvnvvsgi 
> (Justin L Smith)




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