Request for variant subtag fr 16th-c 17th-c Resubmitted!

[Harald Alvestrand]

if you want to specify the same language as Academie Francaise's 1694 
dictionary, I think the subtag "af1694" would be less prone to stimulating 
debate.

Precise tagging of a fuzzy area......

--On 12. desember 2006 13:14 -0500 CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail.com> 
wrote:

> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 1. Name of requester:  C. E. Whitehead
> 2. E-mail address of requester: cewcathar at hotmail.com
> 3. Record Requested:
>
> Type: Variant
> Subtag:  17thc
> Description: 17th century French, or early Modern French
> Prefix: fr
> Preferred-Value:
> Deprecated:
> Suppress-Script:
> Comments: combining elements of Middle and Modern French with some New
> World vocabulary and not completely stable
>
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> 5. Reference to published description
> of the language (book or article):
> * Dictionnaire de l'acad?me fran?oise, 4eme ed. 1694; RTFL Project,
> University of Chicago:
> http://portail.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/index.htm
>
> * F?nelon, Fran?ois de Salignac de La Mothe (1984), Fenelon's Letter to
> the French Academy : with an introduction and commentary.
>
> * Ayres-Bennett, Wendy (2004), Sociolinguistic variation in
> seventeenth-century France : methodology and case studies.
>
> also:
> http://teacherweb.com/FL/Cocoa/CEWhitehead/HTMLPage15.stm
>
>
> 6. Any other relevant information:
>
> for the reference,
> http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/getobject_?p.0:45./var/artfla/dicos/ACAD_
> 1694/IMAGE/ [in Le dictionnaire de l'acad?me fran?oise, 1694;
>
> note the Academe Fracoise was established in 1635 but the 1694 dictionary
> shows that French in this century had not been completely standardized.