[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

I think that for teaching materials it's good to have diacretics and like
Viridzen says it's better to give authors a choice to use diacretics, but
not force them. I think that it's best if the main Gothic language doesn't
use diacretics because Wulfila didn't use them either. There exists
something called Audio Books which could be perfect to teach people how to
read Gothic without diacretics. The main problem with diacretics is that,
if that even happens in the future, you can't let authors write texts full
of diacretics, so you will in the end have texts without diacretics. If you
pay a lot of attention to these diacretics in teaching materials though,
people know how to pronounce words in texts without diacretics. I also
asked Forvo if they could add Gothic so that people can upload
pronunciations of words there. The answer which I got was: "Give us some
time :)", but they still haven't added it after several weeks/months. Just
see what a great customer service! How hard can it be to add a language. -o-

2015-02-12 22:32 GMT+01:00 capsicum.acre at gmail.com [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> At least for teaching long 'u' and long 'a' should be marked too. They are
> easy to learn if you already speak a Germanic language but not everybody
> does. Prefixed words are bothersome too.
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