Talk: North Germanic language
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For those who may be reading this: User:Kenneth Alan has been adding information to this page. He's in the past shown a tendency to add often controversial views to pages, frequently removing other, quite frequently more mainstream, views. See also here Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Kenneth_Alan. Lately he seems to be keeping a lower profile and has been less aggressive in his editing. This is good, but I don't believe we're fully there yet (witnessing his activities at Vinland).
So, Kenneth Alan, two points:
- you still sneak significant quantities of information into an article as minor edits. Minor edits should not be used for such purpose, and I've told you before. Could you please stop doing that?
- I'm sorry I am forced to ask this, but do you have any references to back up these statements, in particular the following: It is comparatively similar to English and Frisian, with which they share the highest concentration of Non-Indo-European_roots_of_Germanic_languages, also common to the Celtic languages. The latter, Continental Scandinavian, is more influenced most notably by German language and the other Germanic languages with a high concentration of structured form akin to the Italic languages.
I am just lazy. I have it on automatic and sometimes forget to take it off. You did not appear to notice that, or if you did, you are deliberately not noting that. Sometimes, I feel like I have to keep it on, though, because of YOU specifically stalking every contribution I make like you're my mother. Go away, please.
I know, you want me to hold the burden of proof. Anglo-Frisian and Old Norse have the most extreme maritime influences, including those Non IE Roots discussed on the Talk:Germanic languages page where you bureaucratically assaulted me also. As formerly stated(before Diderot POV pushed the article with a massive edit) on the Non IE Roots page([1]), Celtic is another language group holding a considerable amount of Non IE Roots. Apart from any Basque influences, Celtic seems to have Non IE terms concentrated mostly in the British Isles, where they were joined by the Anglo-Frisians and Norse. It is blatantly clear to anybody that the Mediterranean influence on High German is astounding. The older Nordic and Germanic writings appear less structured and thought out, but the more evolution into current speech, the tongues have been so standardised by latinisation, especially. One cannot seriously refute that the Anglo-Frisian and West Norse tongues follow the least marked latinising structures on their tongues of the Germanic languages(and especially borrowing scientific terms), apart from writing them in latin script, with a few native letters especially in Icelandic to this day. The Baltic East Norse tongues gained a considerable conversion by the influence of the Low German speakers of the Hanseatic League in their everyday life, most notable in the Hanseatic Cities, like Visby on Gotland. Since High German has been standardising itself all throughout Germany, having a marked effect upon such others as Austrian and Swiss German, all the dialects of Germany and even in Eastern Europe are suffering at the officialisation and BBC type overtaking. See the German language page for more information in this regard. To let your paranoid self know that it's ok, I haven't edited there, because that's not my area of specific study, although it's helpful to know. Lord Kenneš 07:47, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
- "The latter, Continental Scandinavian, is more influenced most notably by German language and the other Germanic languages" This is probably true, anyway...
Uff-da! You guys are so serious! I got a chuckle out of the saying that "Norwegian is Danish spoken in Swedish". When I was in Norway, I was amused to find that the news had Swedish subtitles...very helpful (!)
