Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry deltas

["Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>]

Mark Davis wrote:

> We need to reach consensus on this. I see two basic options.
>
> A. Allow inverted names with commas, but otherwise no commas (outside 
> of parentheticals). For consistency, also invert all the other names 
> that could reasonably be inverted.
>
> ALLOW: Description: Ambae, West
> REPLACE Description: Naga, Maring
> WITH Description: Naga; Maring
> REPLACE Description: Northern Sotho
> WITH Description: Sotho, Northern
>
> B. Disallow inverted names.
>
> REPLACE: Description: Ambae, West
> WITH: Description: West Ambae
> REPLACE Description: Naga, Maring
> WITH Description: Naga; Maring

There shouldn't be any Description fields with a semicolon separating 
two alternative names.  They should be two Description fields instead:

Description: Naga
Description: Maring

That, of course, assumes this is a valid example, and "nng" really does 
have the two alternative names "Naga" and "Maring."  That seems unlikely 
considering the existence of "mbw", which is also called "Maring."

> I did a quick & dirty dump of all description names containing ","

I can't verify the accuracy of much of this list, but one clear error 
stood out:

> CHANGE TO SEMI-COLON
>
> Yi, Sichuan    =>    Yi; Sichuan

This is currently listed in ISO 639-2 as "Sichuan Yi."

Likewise:

> Nahuatl, Highland Puebla    =>    Nahuatl; Highland Puebla

intuitively seems wrong.  I suggest if we want to embark on this, we 
have to go beyond the data files and look each of these up interactively 
on the 639-3 Web site, which does include both the inverted and 
non-inverted forms.  Sometimes, as in the case of Sichuan Yi, this may 
even require going to the linked Ethnologue page.

--
Doug Ewell  *  Fullerton, California, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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