Request for variant subtag "boont"
Addison Phillips
addison at yahoo-inc.com
Tue Aug 29 21:03:34 CEST 2006
Same comments as for 'scouse': I don't have a problem with this, but the
Suppress-Script must go.
Addison
John Cowan wrote:
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 1. Name of requester: John Cowan
> 2. E-mail address of requester: cowan at ccil.org
> 3. Record Requested:
>
> Type: variant
> Subtag: boont
> Description: Boontling
> Prefix: en
> Suppress-Script: Latn
> Comments: Jargon embedded in American English
>
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: The Boontling dialect of American English
> 5. Reference to published description
> of the language (book or article):
>
> Adams, Charles C. _Boontling: An American Lingo, with a Dictionary of
> Boontling. University of Texas Press, 1971
> 6. Any other relevant information:
>
> Boontling is the name given by its speakers to a deliberately contrived
> jargon which was spoken extensively between 1880 and 1920 in the upper
> Anderson Valley of Mendocino County, California. This name, an abbreviated,
> self-explaining compound, is itself a typical word in the jargon. "Boont"
> is the local term for Boonville, the largest town in the valley and
> traditionally the service center of the upper portion of the area; "ling"
> is abbreviated from "lingo". Boontling, then, is the lingo of Boonville.
>
> At the zenith of its development, Boontling contained a basic vocabulary of
> more than 1000 words and phrases, and nearly 3000 specialized names for
> inhabitants of the area and for local geographical features. It was spoken
> and/or understood by most of the approximately 500 people in the rural
> community. Three differing accounts of its origins are given by informants;
> all three agree that it originated as a secret language, but then spread,
> perhaps via public school, to the general populace. A conscious effort was
> made to coin additional words.
>
> Boontling is still studied today, both as an unusual linguistic phenomenon,
> and by local valley residents who wish to know more of their heritage.
>
> Registration of this variant will cause the existing grandfathered
> tag "en-boont" to be changed to a redundant tag.
>
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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
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