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Re: [Ltru] 639-5 (was RE: ISO 639 language code addition rules...)



Leif Halvard Silli scripsit:

> One could claim that whether "whichever" tag is enough, depends of 
> the available tags. (We have for instance had many spelling 
> reforms both for Bokmål and Nynorsk, but have no tags for this.)

Quite so.  If someone feels the need for them, they can be registered.

> However, was this only an argument against my argument?

Yes.

> Or was it an argument against adding a field in the registry which 
> tells whether the tag represents a macrolanguage, a collection or 
> an individual language?

It was not.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org   http://ccil.org/~cowan
"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."
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