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Thinking that maybe that should be "Afrikaaner poets" rather than "Afrikaans poets" but unsure if this distinction applies with these terms, or if Afrikaaner can even be used as an adjective. Do these words have the same person/object relationship that Scots/scottish and Asian/oriental have, in which you wouldn't want to call a person scottish, oriental, or (perhaps) Afrikaans?
Mikkerpikker recently removed the statement "The Afrikaans Language Monument is the only monument in the world dedicated to a language." from the article, explaining that it isn't. I searched for another example, but i could only find the Shaheed Minar, or "Martyr's monument", which, while it is closely associated with the Bangli language, is dedicated to the martyrs who died in the Language Movement, and not strictly to the language itself. So, what other language monuments are there? -- Piet Delport 08:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
The article don't mentions the name of Jan van Bijl who built the monument.
I've assessed this article as C-Class. Could do with better referencing to get it higher. Ron2K ( talk) 20:12, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
I've removed the following paragraph which has virtually nothing to do with the monument. If it belongs anywhere (which is debatable) it might be in the Anton Rupert article, or perhaps the article on Afrikaans, but definitely not here. If anyone wants to move it somewhere else, here it is:
Zaian ( talk) 09:03, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
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Would anyone like to add anything about the ceremony which accompanied the dedication (or presenting) of the monument in 1975? Invmog ( talk) 15:26, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Anyone know the exact height of the monument? I tried looking online but found nothing? :S Bezuidenhout ( talk) 12:29, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
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Can we please discuss the text around the renaming section rather than just removing it.
If the wording, objectivity, references etc need adjusting then great, but surely no-one can suggest that removing any reference to 'Afrikaans' from the 'Afrikaans Language Monument' has no political context.
How and why it happened are critical components in the history.
How, for example, can you delete a statement by the official opposition (and provincial government where the monument is located) on the renaming of the monument itself. Likewise a similar statement on whether Afrikaans is an indigenous language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiCapeAdv ( talk • contribs) 07:53, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
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Thinking that maybe that should be "Afrikaaner poets" rather than "Afrikaans poets" but unsure if this distinction applies with these terms, or if Afrikaaner can even be used as an adjective. Do these words have the same person/object relationship that Scots/scottish and Asian/oriental have, in which you wouldn't want to call a person scottish, oriental, or (perhaps) Afrikaans?
Mikkerpikker recently removed the statement "The Afrikaans Language Monument is the only monument in the world dedicated to a language." from the article, explaining that it isn't. I searched for another example, but i could only find the Shaheed Minar, or "Martyr's monument", which, while it is closely associated with the Bangli language, is dedicated to the martyrs who died in the Language Movement, and not strictly to the language itself. So, what other language monuments are there? -- Piet Delport 08:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
The article don't mentions the name of Jan van Bijl who built the monument.
I've assessed this article as C-Class. Could do with better referencing to get it higher. Ron2K ( talk) 20:12, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
I've removed the following paragraph which has virtually nothing to do with the monument. If it belongs anywhere (which is debatable) it might be in the Anton Rupert article, or perhaps the article on Afrikaans, but definitely not here. If anyone wants to move it somewhere else, here it is:
Zaian ( talk) 09:03, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
References
Would anyone like to add anything about the ceremony which accompanied the dedication (or presenting) of the monument in 1975? Invmog ( talk) 15:26, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Anyone know the exact height of the monument? I tried looking online but found nothing? :S Bezuidenhout ( talk) 12:29, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
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Can we please discuss the text around the renaming section rather than just removing it.
If the wording, objectivity, references etc need adjusting then great, but surely no-one can suggest that removing any reference to 'Afrikaans' from the 'Afrikaans Language Monument' has no political context.
How and why it happened are critical components in the history.
How, for example, can you delete a statement by the official opposition (and provincial government where the monument is located) on the renaming of the monument itself. Likewise a similar statement on whether Afrikaans is an indigenous language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiCapeAdv ( talk • contribs) 07:53, 22 May 2022 (UTC)