User talk:Doric Loon/Archive 2013

Thank you
Thanks you for sharing your vast knowledge on the article talk page and thank you for the compliment. I am trying to follow your scholarly advice as well as that of another scholarly editor who has adopted me. I am indeed fortunate. I will try to implement the changes you suggested, many of which I put in as a result of your prior advice but was recently reverted by other editors. Mugginsx (talk) 12:59, 12 January 2013 (UTC)


 * You are very welcome. I don't want to get involved in a dispute there, unless you ask me to, because I haven't been following all the ins and outs, but the article head now gives a completely wrong impression of the name situation. So be bold, insist on what you know to be right, you have after all spent a lot of time researching this guy. If you need me to weigh in, I will do so. --Doric Loon (talk) 15:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I have changed it and one editor is now demanding to know where to find the definition of fillon despite the fact that I have given it to him name, chapter and verse and the reference given there on two occasions. I will try not to bother you with it and I do appreciate your help. Mugginsx (talk) 15:43, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Jean de Venette
Doric an administrator on Jean de Venette Talk Page has recently asked for information on whether fillon is a definition or part of Jean's name. Would you care to weight in? I have gone as far as I can. Mugginsx (talk) 22:21, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, thanks for sending on the Rechs piece, appreciated. And thanks for weighing in too. Nice also to have met you - some of the work I do is in areas you specialize in, so might hit you up again in the future sometime. Truthkeeper (talk) 03:05, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland
I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:41, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Hagneby Abbey
Greetings. I see you created Hagneby Abbey. I have put a merge proposal in to redirect it to the existing Hagnaby Abbey, which is the same place with the more conventional spelling. See the examples on the talk page under the merge proposals--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 09:58, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Tron Church


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High German consonant shift reversion
Hey -- indeed I screwed up in glossing selig as "noble" instead of "blessed". Somehow I had Old English ēadig in mind. But the point about -ig is important because it is pronounced with a fricative in standard German, unlike the other examples. Look in a German or German-English dictionary and you'll see Tag indicated as /tak/, Sieg as /ziːk/, but selig as /zeːlɪç/. This is a special case in standard German. Note zwanzig /tsvantsɪç/, zwanzigste /tsvantsɪçstǝ/, but zwanziger /tsvantsɪgʌ/. Pronouncing this ending is considered incorrect/substandard. Benwing (talk) 01:31, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Here is an example:



Benwing (talk) 01:33, 17 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Benwing. You are certainly right about the pronunciations in modern German. I'm not convinced, though, that this isn't just an effect of terminal devoicing in an unstressed syllable. Unless you have a source for the origin of it, I'm nost sure it is helpful to put it into an article which is not actually about modern German philology. --Doric Loon (talk) 13:22, 21 December 2013 (UTC)


 * What do you mean this isn't just an effect of terminal devoicing? This has to be a special-case rule one way or another in German grammar. Terminal devoicing would normally lead to the sound of /k/; in general, cross-linguistically there's no special-casing of /ig/ in terminal devoicing.


 * The problem is that the text as-is is inaccurate in that it implies that final is a non-standard regional pronunciation, but this isn't true in the case I noted above. Either we need to add my text or delete the whole section about pronouncing terminal devoiced /g/ as a fricative. Benwing (talk) 22:19, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see what you mean. Personally I would delete the whole paragraph, because the link between the early consonant shift and the modern situation has not really been made in the cited literature. Since terminal devoicing also plays into the thing, it all seems too fuzzy just to assume a connection. But if you have better information, then put it in. The main thing from my point of view is to reduce the temptation to add more and more detail of minor features of the modern language which have less and less to do with the point of the article. --Doric Loon (talk) 22:43, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. I've gone ahead and put the text back. I think it's somewhat relevant because it refers to cases in the modern language or dialects where the hardening of voiced fricatives is incomplete, which is historically related to the stage-2 hardening of voiced fricatives. It's possible that the reason it only affects final -ig has some relation to either ich-laut vs. ach-laut or terminal devoicing, or it's possible it's a borrowing from low-german dialects; the exact reason isn't so relevant but the fact that there is an apparent failure of fricative hardening *is* relevant in that it's one of the various exceptional outputs of the HG sound shift in the modern language. I don't see a problem in covering some consonantal changes that occurred further on in Middle or Modern High German, because many of them are continuing the same drift that began with the HG sound shift. (E.g. the change w > b after l or r, cf. English "yellow" (OE gealw-), German Gelbe.) Benwing (talk) 07:46, 27 December 2013 (UTC)