User talk:Gott wisst

Welcome to Wikibooks, Gott wisst!

Naming convention
I noticed your edits on Old English. While all of the links in the welcome message above are useful, please see our naming policy in particular. You'll find that organising pages into slash-delimited sub-pages is quite useful as it creates links to parent pages under the page title. --Swift (talk) 04:24, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi
It's nice to see someone doing something with the Old English book. I think I'll chip in a bit if I can find my textbooks.

Wæs þu hæl! Actualist (discuss • contribs) 16:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Éalá, ƿes hál. I also do work on the OE Wikipedia. It'd be good to have a decent book on OE here. Gott wisst (discuss • contribs) 07:21, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Declensions?
Why did you put accusative last in the tables for adjectives? Is this a German thing? In books written in English accusative always comes after nominative and before genitive.
 * I didn't - I was following the precedent of whoever did (care to dig the history?), because I was just copying tables and changing the entries to save time. However, I agree that it is best to have the accusative after the nominative. Since you've pointed it out, I will be happy to change it (or it would be easy enough for you to do so, also - and that would lighten my workload). Wes hāl. Gott wisst (discuss • contribs) 21:58, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, right. I'll put them in the right order, then. The last guy had a few funny ideas. Actualist (discuss • contribs) 00:24, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Progress
I've added stuff on strong verbs.

I think the verbs page needs to be broken into pieces. First an article explaining what the various parts of the verb actually do, then one on weak verbs, then weak irregulars, then strong verbs, then really irregular verbs, then preterite present verbs, rather than putting it all in one great slab of text.

Actualist (discuss • contribs) 06:35, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Definitely the verbs page should be broken up... But I think that within, for example, the weak verbs, the present tense, past tense, past participle, etc., should either all be on one table anyway, or there should be a "summary" table where all the different forms of a verb are on one table. What do you think of that?


 * BTW, despite lack of contribution by me recently, I have not given up on the project - I've been juggling several projects, including Wikipedia, and working on translatewiki.net, and also converting the source code of Bosworth and Toller as downloadable from the Germanic Lexican project, into a respectable odt document (and then a respectable HTML document, so I can put it on Wikisource, maybe). Ƿes hál. Gott wisst (discuss • contribs) 21:31, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I agree completely about the color scheme. It appears to have been copied from WP, and whoever thought it up in the first place had no taste Actualist (discuss • contribs) 13:44, 11 June 2013 (UTC)