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Wynn
@wudu-wasa.bsky.social
(he/him) PhD Student, Centre for Medieval Studies, Uni. of Toronto / Uni. of Iceland | Comparative Middle English and Old Norse romance | Appalachian softy lefty | proud union man
This fella
September 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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.
August 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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/.
August 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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.
August 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yeah I gave it a full read and it was somehow worse than I expected. Really distressing stuff.
January 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'd like to be added too, please!
November 21, 2024 at 12:20 AM