Disputatio Vicipaediae:Coining - Vicipaedia

# Disputatio Vicipaediae:Coining

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I am no expert. Please take the following more philosophically than linguistically.

This Wikipedia is special. We have do not have native speakers. We sometimes do not even have words for the things we are talking about. What would be the Latin word for "aeroplane"? Who could tell us?

So the experts try to guess what Caesar would have called an aeroplane. Isn't that strange? How would Schiller have called an aeroplane?

However, we need those words to talk about these things. It seems to be common sense, not to coin words. But in fact we are doing this. If someone finds sources from 200 years ago: What does it help? If you find a 200 year old source for a German word, this might not be the word native speakers would use now.

I have a provocative question: Shouldn't we actively and self-confident coin words? Isn't the whole Latin "coined" when we use it in our days? How would it have evolved? Shouldn't we simply switch to Italian or another modern language when we do not like to coin Latin for our needs? Although, we should give coined words a template "coined". I think there are many titles around which already deserved that template. Depending on what we mean by "coining" ... ;-) --Rolandus 10:56, 17 Decembris 2006 (UTC)

  I think there is nothing wrong with coinings (and I have been working on guidelines for Latinizing foreign words), however I don't believe Wikipedia is the place for it: this place is to describe, not to create. As for aeroplane, the word in common use appears to be aëroplănum, even though the etymology would prefer aëroplānum. This word is used by the Latin news sources such as Ephemeris and the Nuntii Latini (both the German and the Finnish). —Myces Tiberinus 00:27, 18 Decembris 2006 (UTC)

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