be-tarask voting results

[Gerard Meijssen]

Yury Tarasievich schreef:
> On 06/04/07, Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>> The problem is: the subtag is named "classic". This removes the
>> possibility of any *other* "classic" subtag meaning in the future. I
>> would prefer subtags named for the specific dialect, if at all possible
>> (noting the political problems here).
>
> FWIW, "classic" is groupspeak name for this language variant, invented
> by its promoting/supporting group c. mid.1990s, and used to denote it
> exclusively (or almost exclusively) by same group. Flies in the face
> of any imaginable definition of "classic", but it's your decision.
> ---
Hoi,
It may be your groupspeak, it is however not "classic" in what classic 
traditionally means. Having it invented in the mid 1990s hardly makes it 
classic. The other point is when a small subculture defines names like 
this, it does not follow that it is accepted by the culture at large.
Thanks,
    Gerard