Talk:Joyous Entry

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[edit] Title

"Joyous Entry" is an entry of Britannica, so the article should be in English rather than in Dutch. Moreover, the French translation was incorrect. --Melodius 11:17, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Moved back to its original title with the following note: The original title, which is the name of this famous document known to everyone. Magna Carta is not "Big Chart". It might be sensible to establish a User page, a courtesy to other editors, and to think twice before making changes where, perhaps, angels fear to tread. --Wetman 14:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Melodius has reverted again to Joyous Entry. We await Melodius" reversion of Magna Carta to Big Charter. This is irresponsible editing, based on whim. --Wetman 09:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

A search through Amazons book database shows equally recent and authoritative books that use "Joyous Entry" as use "Blijde Inkomst". Unlike Magna Carta which is clearly most well known by the name, there does not appear to be guidence on this from the "real world". The naming ambiguity is notable in and of its self and perhaps would make an interesting sentence or two in the article. --Stbalbach 16:03, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Obviously, in English there is no significant prevalence for the Dutch or English term, but only the so-called authors about the charter are responsible for the overall total appearance of the French term being used more than the Dutch and English terms together: 77% of them seem to have merely copy/edited or referenced only or mainly French sources on the charter. For a topic on a historical text written in Dutch regarding the Dutch-speaking duchy of Brabant and about which many Dutch-language sources exist, this so-manied sourcing it not impressively professional. Only 52% of the assumedly less highly specialized authors who wrote about some of the many Joyous Entries of which not so few actually occurred in French-speaking cities, show this particuliarity and may themselves have been influenced by forementioned 77% of texts mentioning the charter by its French name.

content language	content topic	by any term →		joyous entry	blijde intrede	blyde intrede	blijde inkomst	blyde inkomst	blijde intocht	blyde intocht	joyeuse entrée	joyeuse entree	entrée joyeuse	entree joyeuse	selector determining language & topic
Dutch	charter	8%	112 ←	1	21	0	70	0	2	3	13	2	0	0	het 1355 OR 1356 -the
	other	92%	1224 ←	35	426	5	164	25	164	0	343	57	4	1	het -1355 -1356 -the
	intended term →			36	452		259		169		415		5		→ en:0.03%, nl:66%, fr:34%
English	charter	12%	240 ←	29	0	0	26	1	0	0	139	42	2	1	the 1355 OR 1356 -het
	other	88%	1723 ←	407	220	1	142	11	10	0	488	217	178	49	the -1355 -1356 -het
	intended term →			436	221		180		10		886		230		Google effectively shown extracts without its own domain or language selectors set
	term's language →			en:22%	←← nl:21% 411 →→						← fr:57% 1116 →

Each search had " -wiki -wikimedia -wikipedia -wikimiki" behind the in table shown selector. Note that any particular page might mention the topic in more than one language or by more than one variant or spelling, thus a page may have been counted into more than one column. A page mentioning the year (OS or NS) of the charter and counted as such, might also mention other Joyous Entries while not being counted on that row. The assumedly rare occasion of the charter being mentioned without its year, would have been counted as 'other'.

— SomeHuman 16 Mar 2007 20:40 - 17 Mar 2007 01:30 (UTC)

[edit] Some minor changes

Let me minutely explicate some minor changes:

• The 14th-century language of the document's text and name needn't be identified at the outset with modern Dutch rather than modern Flemish. Why not let sleeping dogs lie?
• In a sentence that concerns the Duke of Brabant, the revised hidden link Duchy of Brabant redirects to Brabant. I have made sure that there is a link to Brabant at its first appearance.
• The adjective "Brabantic" being a barbarism in English, rather than revert to the former "Brabant custom" I have chosen the third way: "custom in Brabant"
  

Offered in hope that we can avoid the edit wars that are disfiguring the Page history of Brussels --Wetman 20:07, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

The English word is "Joyous Entry", just as the English word for that other document is "Magna Carta". That's all there is to it. --Melodius 14:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

BTW, the text of the document is Dutch, since that is the name of the official language which is used in official documents like this one. The fact that the dialects most influential on the normative language at the time were the Brabant and Flemish dialects rather than the Holland dialect as is the case today does not change that. Moreover, although I am not a linguist, the text as it is quoted here looks more Brabantic than Flemish to me, and it is not clear if it reflects the orginal language of the document or that of the more recent compilation of law it was taken from. --Melodius 09:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the text is no longer available to me: dead link. Can it be obtained elsewhere on the internet? — SomeHuman 16 Mar 2007 20:40 (UTC)

[edit] Joyous Entry rewritten

As the abundant number of references in the now revised article —and the table in section 'Title' here above— make very obvious, the term 'Joyous Entry', like in French and Dutch languages, mainly means the first official visit of a city. At those visits, extra rights were often granted. At one such occasion of a Joyous Entry into Brussels, an important charter was signed which in context of major law texts became referred to as the Joyous Entry. It thus deserves a proper section by itself, but cannot occupy the entire and far more general term (and article name) 'Joyous Entry'. Since both the general and the specific meanings are most closely related, it would not have been correct to create some disambiguation page; at the contrary, the lead section clarifies the origin of the occasion as well as the name of the famous charter. — SomeHuman 15 Mar 2007 11:18 - 17 Mar 2007 19:24 (UTC)