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Re: [Ltru] Preferred Values for Irregular Tags



> From: ltru-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Nicholas Shanks

> > "oeddict" -- I might prefer "oxford" as the tag if there's not
> another
> > linguistic use for that term.
>
> I'd prefer oxford too, it's an extant word which is easier to say and
> thus less prone to typos.

How often to we expect people to be *saying* language tags?

I don't see a concern about typos for something like "oeddict"; these are all, after all, abstract identifiers with limited, if any, mnemonicity. I'm currently working on something requiring me to type out dozens, maybe even a couple of hundred, ISO 639-3 IDs; "oeddict" strikes me as far lower risk wrt typos.

My vote: "oeddict", or something "...dict". The subtag is referring specifically to an orthographic convention as represented in a particular dictionary; it is not a general reference to language/writing variations associated with one or more places known as "Oxford".


Peter

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