Wynn

This fella

There isn't really any conclusion to all this. I would fix these myself, but I have better uses of my time and I'm too burnt out to do it. But it is always infuriating whenever I find yet another page garbled with this rando's whack-ass badlinguistics these past few years.

The problem is not just that one person has unilaterally decided that Old Norse-Icelandic was pronounced a certain way - it wasn't - but that unsuspecting readers who don't know any better might fall for it. Like, there could be someone out there horribly confused and pronouncing Óláfr as /olɑvz/.

Thankfully, the more-trafficked pages, like the mythology ones, have been fixed by other sober-minded editors, but I still keep stumbling upon more obscure pages that this rando has fiddled with. What's more, the modern Icelandic IPA is also usually incorrect.

It still irks me that one random Wikipedia editor has flooded tons of Old Norse studies pages with their absolutely ridiculous and ahistorical pronunciations of Old Norse personal names. Like, this person thinks that the Proto Germanic /z/ persisted into the Viking Age. Absolutely wild pet theory.

It's been two weeks of tutorials in the class on play and games that I'm TAing for and I have already talked way too much about Disco Elysium.

Yeah I gave it a full read and it was somehow worse than I expected. Really distressing stuff.

A painting depicting soldiers gathered around a small pine tree, symbolizing unity and peace. Text says: In December 1914, many soldiers on both sides of the Western Front laid down their arms to share short moments of peace amid the destruction of World War I.

The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a powerful symbol of shared humanity during one of the most difficult periods in modern history. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 #𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗜𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 #𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 #𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 #𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮
Edited by Marianne Kalinke

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