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:::: Ok. As I said: let's keep it. (Besides: Why not? Because in all the linguistic dictionaries I have at hand, they don't count languages to this group. Because the definition of a proper noun is, that it is a specific single thing. But languages can be divised in e.g. the "English" of the medieval times and the modern English, american English, british English and so on. That's why they claim, that languages are not proper nouns. Please don't be mad about me. I'm just wondering.) [[User:Na'rìghawnu|Na'rìghawnu]] 16:19, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:::: Ok. As I said: let's keep it. (Besides: Why not? Because in all the linguistic dictionaries I have at hand, they don't count languages to this group. Because the definition of a proper noun is, that it is a specific single thing. But languages can be divised in e.g. the "English" of the medieval times and the modern English, american English, british English and so on. That's why they claim, that languages are not proper nouns. Please don't be mad about me. I'm just wondering.) [[User:Na'rìghawnu|Na'rìghawnu]] 16:19, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::: Well, there's this tension we have to deal with — Frommer's terms vs. whatever is hip and happening now in linguistics.  It seems less confusing in the long run to stick with Frommer's usage unless there's some really overwhelming reason not to.  —[[User:Wm.annis|Wm.annis]] 16:27, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::: Well, there's this tension we have to deal with — Frommer's terms vs. whatever is hip and happening now in linguistics.  It seems less confusing in the long run to stick with Frommer's usage unless there's some really overwhelming reason not to.  —[[User:Wm.annis|Wm.annis]] 16:27, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hey William,

Any way the songs can be posted, or maybe emailed? Looks like there's some good stuff in there. kwami 21:34, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

I think posting them might fall under reasonable fair-use, but I am currently hesitant to test that theory. I don't even know who owns Na'vi at this point — Cameron? Fox? Paramount has been twitchy about Klingon, so I'm perhaps over-cautious. Wm.annis 21:42, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Could you email them to me, then? Certainly phrases can be used.
(BTW, AFAIK you can't copyright a language, or a script, so no-one can own the language and the vocab is fair game, though you can of course copyright the poems themselves.) kwami 22:29, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
I have tried — and failed — to find your email address. Where should I be looking? Wm.annis 01:01, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
If you go to my user or talk page, in the toolbox on the left, under the search box, 2nd from the btm is a link 'e-mail this user'. My email is enabled, so it should work.
Thanks! kwami 07:33, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello¡ You know a language is a living thing and it needs the word love. Don´t bane me. Change it if you like, but keep a word for love. Thank you.

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Vocabulary

Hello, William. I wanted to ask you first, but I'd like to change "'Ìnglìsì" to "'ìnglìsì". I know, that it is written capitalized in the ASG, but I have problems to see a language as a proper noun. What do you think? Na'rìghawnu 10:27, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, Frommer seems to have no such problem. He uses the upper-case form in his email, too. —Wm.annis 14:29, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hm, so ok, let's keep it so. But I'm still not convinced that languages belong to the group of proper nouns. Na'rìghawnu 16:10, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Why on earth not? In English we always treat it so. This is Frommer's language, created for a people with no writing system. I'm not sure why we'd dispute his practice. —Wm.annis 16:13, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Ok. As I said: let's keep it. (Besides: Why not? Because in all the linguistic dictionaries I have at hand, they don't count languages to this group. Because the definition of a proper noun is, that it is a specific single thing. But languages can be divised in e.g. the "English" of the medieval times and the modern English, american English, british English and so on. That's why they claim, that languages are not proper nouns. Please don't be mad about me. I'm just wondering.) Na'rìghawnu 16:19, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Well, there's this tension we have to deal with — Frommer's terms vs. whatever is hip and happening now in linguistics. It seems less confusing in the long run to stick with Frommer's usage unless there's some really overwhelming reason not to. —Wm.annis 16:27, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Admin

So, Ochristi helped me figure out how to make folks admins. Thought you could use a boost in permissions.