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

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I don't think you have to be Catholic to go to the Vatican library, but I'm not sure who's allowed in there. (If it's not restricted to the pope and suchlike, I'd love to go.)
 I think denoting long "a", "e", "o", and "u" is good too, so you know whether to use -ji- or -ei- (such as "nasjis", short "a", versus "sokeis", long "o".) We use the macron for that. (I actually never use macrons for Gothic, but for teaching, it is optimal.)
 I think a Gothic textbook should have exercises such as "fill in the diacritics in a passage" or "pronounce aloud and compare with the audio CD". This would teach people what goes where. But there would be a notice saying it's not guaranteed that someone will use them in their writing.
 Now I want to write a textbook for Gothic. Not by myself (and I'm not apt for teaching Gothic yet anyway), but some of the people here might be good at it. I'd proofread the English at least, since I am very good at that.

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