Category talk:English language

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[edit] Category reorganization

I'm about 1/3 through putting everything into its subcategories, but I'm logging off for now. I'll resume within a day or two. • Benc • 11:04, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) This is like pulling hairs... painful and time-consuming. I've been working on this whenever I feel like it, and will continue to do so until done. :-) Feel free to chip in, as others have already. • Benc • 07:08, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Would you like some help? It looks like a more structured hierarchy could help a lot, and a linguistics perspective may help. Gareth Hughes 01:49, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The following pages should probably be put into the "English dialects" sub-cat:

  • English English
  • Gullah
  • Mid-Atlantic English
  • New York-New Jersey English
  • North American English
  • Pennsylvania Dutchified English
  • Pitmatic
  • Pittsburgh English
  • Southern American English
  • Standard Midwestern
  • Yorkshire accent
  • ... as well as some others I'm sure I've missed.

I'm not entirely sure what to do with the dialects of Old English, nor with Old, Middle, and Early Modern themselves. (The latter batch I would suggest belong in "History...", but do the OE dialects go in History or Dialects? Or both?)

Public School and Received Pronunciation should maybe go in the pronunciation subcat.

Someone with better knowledge of the system here should make the actual changes, or suggest how they're done --- does one just move the links from this page to that, or is there something more intensive to be done? juicy 22:47, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I've shifted all the articles I could into subcategories and subsubcategories and subsubsubcategories. And I'm taking off the "being reorganized" tag, though that should not be construed as meaning there's no more reorganization to be done. --Angr 15:32, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)