CFV: soc.culture.occitan
Jani Patokallio
FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
unmoderated group soc.culture.occitan
Newsgroups line:
soc.culture.occitan Speakers of Provencal/Occitan/Langue d'Oc.
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 21 Feb 1997.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Direct questions
about the proposed group to the proponent. Do not distribute this CFV or the
information contained in it in any form without the votetaker's permission.
Proponent: Jean-Jacques Maurette <maur...@cict.fr>
Votetaker: Jani Patokallio <jpat...@alpha.hut.fi>
RATIONALE: soc.culture.occitan
Among the Romance languages issued from Latin, Occitan (also known as
Langue d'Oc or Provencal) is the most widespread of those not having a
status as a state or autonomous region language. An occitan
mailing-list of more than 100 subscribers is working, but some users
are bothered by the automatic reception of such mail in their work
mailbox, as the postings are rather frequent, and by the fact some of
these messages are not in their field of interest.
CHARTER: soc.culture.occitan
Soc.culture.occitan is a newsgroup for the discussion of the
langue d'oc area, its culture, language, politics, history, and all
topics normally discussed in "soc.culture" newsgroups.
The "Occitan" culture is the culture of the occitan-langue d'oc
speaking area, covering the southernmost third of France, the Aran
valley in the Catalonia autonomous community (Spain), the upper alpine
valleys of Piedmont and the Calabrian city of Guardia Piemontese (Italy).
The occitan culture is a culture of its own, which gained a flattered
reputation during the middle-ages with the trobadors (troubadours)
poetry and the catharian heresy.
These two topics, and the present attempts of revival of the occitan
language and traditions, would be the most often topics. We strongly
recommend, as this group would not be moderated, to include a topic
keyword in the Subject of the postings, such as History, Language,
Culture, Politics and so on.
The languages of the postings would be, Occitan-Langue d'Oc (without
restriction on the choice of the orthography), Catalan, French, English.
END CHARTER.
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Jani Patokallio <jpat...@alpha.hut.fi>
Voting address: <vot...@hut.fi>