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Re: [Ltru] draft updated



John Cowan wrote:
> > B.t.w., should not the preferred value for the grandfathered
> > sign language tags maintain the region, like:
> >  
> > g.f. tag	cur. p.v.	p.v. keeping region
> > sgn-BE-FR	sfb	 	sbf-BE (or sgn-sbf-BE)
> > sgn-BE-NL	vgt		vgt-BE (or sgn-vgt-BE)
> > sgn-CH-DE	sgg		sgg-CH (or sgn-sgg-CH)
> 
> sgn-ase (American Sign Language) is spoken in at least 20 countries
> beside the U.S.  Treating sgn-ase-US as equivalent to sgn-ase would be
> erroneous, as there are undoubtedly local variations.

But that wasn't my (semi)suggestion.

My (semi)suggestion was that sgn-US be preferred-value-mapped to
ase-US rather than to just ase (or sgn-ase) (and similarly for
the other sgn- grandfathered tags).

I.e. to keep the *already existing* region subtag. NOT that
sgn-ase-US would be "equivalent" to sgn-ase (or ase). I certainly
don't want to rule out ase-CA (sgn-ase-CA) and others. Just that
the grandfathered tag maybe should *keep* the region part in the
preferred value *the grandfathered sgn- tags map to*.

And... Hmm, sign languages aren't really spoken, they are signed...
But they can be written using mechanisms such as Sutton Sign
Writing (http://www.signwriting.org/).

	/kent k

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