Brūcendmōtung:Hogweard

The translation request
Hi! Could I ask you to translate the article which you can find below into Old English? Please help me to show our language to the world – the article is quite short and has been selected from English and Silesian article and shortened as possible to contain only the basic informations. If you would finish, please, let me know on my Silesian or Polish discussion. Thanks in advance.
PS. If you want me to translate any article into Polish or Silesian, contact me without hesistation.
So, here’s the text to translation:

The Silesian language (Silesian: ślůnsko godka, ślůnski, sometimes also pů našymu) is a language spoken by people in the Upper Silesia region in Poland, but also in Czech Republic and Germany. In the National Census of Poland in 2002 about 56 000 people declared Silesian as their native language.

Silesian is closely related to Polish language, that’s why it is considered as a dialect of Polish by some linguists.

Alphabet

There’s not one Silesian alphabet. The Silesian speakers are used to write their language with the Polish characters. In 2006 was invented the new Silesian alphabet, based on all of the Silesian scripts (there’s 10 of them). It is widely used on the Internet, as well as in the Silesian Wikipedia.

Aa Bb Cc Ćć Čč Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Ńń Oo Pp Rr Řř Ss Śś Šš Tt Uu Ůů Ww Yy Zz Źź Žž

And some digraphs: Ch Dz Dź Dž.

External links

• The Silesian Wikipedia
• News in Silesian
• Pů našymu – djalykt ślůnski kodyfikowůny

Thank you once again, Timpul 10:30, 21 Wēodmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Do you want me to translate anything into Polish or Silesian? Greetings from Poland! Timpul 10:23, 29 Wēodmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

Se nama Grēclandes

I used Bosworth and Toller's dictionary, which lists Grēcland on b0488 as:

Gréc-land, es; n. Greece :-- Dionisius gewende on ðam tíman fram Gréclande Dionysius returned at that time from Greece, Homl. Th. i. 558, 33. [Laym. griclond.]

Good to have you here! - --James 00:33, 2 Hāligmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

Macrons in titles

You didnt really give time for consensus... but it would be best for you to restore all pages to their original titles, and then simply create new pages without macrons, and then use that new page as a redirect to the old/original page. For instance, if there is more than one way to title something, all other non-primary titles will point to the main one.

#REDIRECT [[Original page name]]

This coding up here will allow you to do so.

—Ƿōdenhelm 07:54, 13 Hāligmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I hear ya man. I myself wish that we had the option to treat plain or macron vowels as the same, but we dont seem to. I feel that it would be best to have the macron-titles as the page's true title, with any alternatives pointing to the main page. For instance, I made an article about the game Starcraft (from Blizzard Entertainment) and I created several redirects, in order to compensate for those alternate titles... such as Starcraft, StarCraft, Steorracræft, SteorraCræft, TungolCræft, and so forth.

If you and I work together, I'm confident that we'll come up with a good solution :)

—Ƿōdenhelm 21:15, 20 Hāligmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

I'm just wondering...

Why you constantly change things around?

—Ƿōdenhelm 20:35, 30 Winterfylleþ 2008 (UTC)

Alright that seems to make sense. It's just mainly seeing alot of the nation names being suddenly changed, I was curious about it, and was wondering as to the motivation. National names can indeed be tricky, and alot of thought has to be put into them. Just an example, "Washington" seems like it would be very similar, but upon research, I found that its most likely origin is "Hwæsingatūn". I've got an English friend who lives up in the Washington area of NE England, (which is the origin of George Washington's family). Others would be far more tricky, like Virginia. I'll be honest, I'd have no idea how to back-track that one, unless you wanted to go with "Mæġdenia" or something strange of that nature. Otherwise I'd shoot for Wirgīnia, Weorgēnia, or something. Suggestions for Virginia are much-needed. I've actually made a neologism-proposal page, which can be found here

—Ƿōdenhelm 04:37, 31 Winterfylleþ 2008 (UTC)

"Ȝerecþeȝnung"?

I dont understand this term, and I cannot find it anywhere else across the entire web. What do you mean by it?

—Ƿōdenhelm 08:13, 3 Blōtmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

Ah I got'cha. For some strange reason, I was looking at "rec" to be a second prefix which I had never seen. Go ahead and place your term on the neologism proposal page, so we can start keeping track of all the used and proposed ones in one place (flipping through every article gets tedious after a while!)

Kingly styles

Response can be found here. Oh and how long you gonna be online tonight? If you give me about an hour, we could perhaps chat by IM, so we can conjure up positive ways to overhaul this wiki. —Ƿōdenhelm 23:29, 6 Gēolmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

Look...

I'm perfectly aware of the fact that there was no V in OE, but the title of Virginia will remain as it is, for the simple facts that:

1. The title is not (and prob'ly never will be) rendered into OE, and
2. The V at the beginning represents a sound which otherwise would only occur medially in a word in OE, therefore it would make no sense to use either a U (which would be the W sound) or an F (which, at the beginning, would be an F sound).

Therefore, I'm asking you to stop edit-warring. And dont use the "accuracy" excuse. —Ƿōdenhelm 15:28, 12 Gēolmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)

Re: Welcome back

Thanks for the greeting. I can't promise to contribute regularly, but it is nice to be back.

Thanks for making me aware of the yogh/wen issue. I must say I that while I do favour the use of macrons in titles (as you apparently do not) I do however agree with your apparent position against the use of yogh and wen: I think we should follow the conventions of modern Anglo-Saxon scholarship and use g and w.

One thing, though: I would ask that when you disagree with a page move that you focus on getting it moved back rather than trying to recreate it as you did with Geānlǣht Cynerīce. When you recreate something and give it a non-empty article history, it means the article actually can't be moved without the help of an admin. Nobody short of an admin can move Ȝeānlǣht Cynerīce to Geānlǣht Cynerīce. --Saforrest 04:16, 18 Gēolmōnaþ 2008 (UTC)