User talk:Scyrme/Archive November 2021

Article titles
Hello,

You have changed the article titles of Eastern Low Prussian, Elbingian and Vistulan dialect. Where did you get the titles from? Kind regards, Sarcelles (talk) 19:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)


 * "Eastern Low Prussian" is a translation of "Ostniederpreußisch", a name used for this particular subdialect by one of the references (Dialektologie if I recall correctly; my memory is fuzzy on which of the refs it is to be honest but I distinctly remember checking the geographic descriptions to confirm that the terms were synonymous, at least in the reference given).
 * "Elbingian" is simply the English adjective for things pertaining to the region/city of Elbing; it can be found in various online dictionaries among other places, if you're worried it's a neologism. It seemed to me to be a fairly straightforward and concise translation for the Elbingian Prussian (Elbingisch-Preußische) subdialect, and the title was unused by any other article or redirect.
 * "Vistulan dialect" is a concise rewording of "dialect of the Vistula region" (Dialekt des Weichselgebietes); the literal translation seemed too wordy a title for the article. "Vistulan", like "Elbingian", is an already attested English adjective for things pertaining to the Vistula region/river.
 * While I know it would be best to have an English source that directly uses these names, for most of these articles literally all the listed and available references are in German, so it seemed to me that translation was the best that could be done for these articles. I noticed a few of the other articles already used translated titles, so I didn't think doing so consistently would be a problem. You yourself translated "Natangisch" as "Natangian". Scyrme (talk) 08:46, 10 November 2021 (UTC)