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Re: [Ltru] Re: Proposal: include new "Language-Type:" field



On 9 Oct 2006, at 21:52, scríobh McDonald, Ira:

Hi,

How about attacking this proposal based on facts, rather than
unrelated topics or grumpiness...

Dismiss it as Monday grumps, if you will.:-)

On 9 Oct 2006, at 23:21, scríobh Addison Phillips:

Upon further review, I find that I'm more of Mark's persuasion. John's proposal appeared, at first, to me to provide some way to distinguish "collective" languages and "macro-languages", but, in fact, it only distinguishes the former and not the latter...

The information about extinct, ancient, historic, or constructedness of languages is "interesting", but not really necessary to the functions of the registry. The ILSR is not a replacement for ISO 639.

Exactly.

On 10 Oct 2006, at 06:51, scríobh Doug Ewell:
...
The proposal requires only what is present in the existing ISO/FDIS 639-3 data files.

It came across to me as a proposal to push closure further away by moving the goalposts (in ISO parlance, by changing the agreed scope), but if enough people think otherwise, then work away, if time permits, with my blessing.
mg



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