Phillips, Addison scripsit: > Since we have the direct testimony of the folks who conceived of > macrolanguage, I don't see any reason why anyone would believe > otherwise. The very essence of a cover story is that it's direct testimony. But I do not at all believe that "the wise Havard and the noble Peter" are deceiving us about their motives. > One of the problems macrolanguage brings > us is that it is *not* just a "cover story": ISO 639-3 made an honest > effort to catalog all macrolanguages, not just the ones that are useful > to us. To be precise, they cataloged the ones that had 639-2 tags already. There was no tag for Romanian/Moldovan, and they did not create one. -- John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script. One of the geologists came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too. Try hanging up and phoning in again.' --Beverly Erlebacher _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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