RE: [Ltru] Disambiguating specific and generic names

["Kent Karlsson" <kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se>]

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I still hope that 639-3 will not use "(specific)"/"(macrolanguage)" or similar parentheticals, but rather

along the line of adding "Standard" (or similar) where necessary to bring clarity to the names.

 

B.t.w, I find it strange that    zne Zande     (Standard Zande?) is regarded as a "(specific)" language,

while       znd Zande      is regarded as a "collective" language code, not a macrolanguage code.

 

        /kent k

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Davis [mailto:mark.davis at icu-project.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:48 PM
To: John Cowan
Cc: ltru at ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Disambiguating specific and generic names

The only way the semantics play a role is, as I said, if they serve to disambiguate two entries. If you think this information is necessary, it would be useful to find a case where it does, in fact, disambiguate. Otherwise it is unnecessary in the registry. There is *lots* of information about languages out in the world -- we just need to focus on the information that is necessary for the registry itself.

Mark

On 10/15/06, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

Mark Davis scripsit:

> Functionally in the registry, X is a macrolanguage iff it has at least
> one extlang.

Syntactically, yes.  Semantically, no.

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