Miloš,
What I support is not a "hoax", but rather the right to determine one's own sociolinguistic and sociocultural identity.
In the past, it would have been possible for many people to change their cultural identity than it is now, and in many cases they would be accepted by the community they sought to join.
If somebody decided that they were part of an ethnic group that previously didn't exist (like if I suddenly decided today I were a Glapolgaptoringian), in some parts of the world what they said would be taken at face value.
If somebody wants to say that their mother tongue is called Zlatiborian, we should let them.
Again somebody makes the daft mistake of bringing the US into this. When I speak of self-determination for indigenous people or independence for regions in other corners of the earth, people often say something like "Well, why don't you support Texas independence then?" and the most simple answer to that is that I do to the extent that Texans themselves support it. I am not a hypocrit(e).
So, if somebody wants to make a language template for Newyorkish, Californic, Texan, Cascadian, or Lasvegish, I will not be like you and say "This is a rediculous hoax! You speak English!" but instead "While I personally wouldn't consider those to be languages, to each his own. If you want to say you speak that 'language', I will support you in that".
So, I will support the existence of the Zlatiborian language template, so long as it is in use on at least one userpage.
Mark
On 20/10/05, Milos Rancic millosh@mutualaid.org wrote:
On the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#.5B.5BTemplate... Mark Williamson supports a hoax called "Zlatiborian language". If the intention is that English Wikipedia becomes the irrelevant place for Balkan languages and dialects, I can help, too. I started to make user language templates for all regions from Serbia. When I finish it, I would start to make the same for the regions of USA. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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