Randy Presuhn scripsit:
> > I continue to think that the best defense against cherry-picking
> > complaints is to say we are doing this for backward compatibility,
> > and we need backward compatibility only for "zh" and "sgn", period.
>
> I'm sympathetic to this line of reasoning, but I find the analogy for things
> like ar-arb too persuasive to fully agree to the limitation.
Fine, but where do we stop? The only valid tag for Malay right now is
'ms', so that's what people use. Almost all Malay written content is
Standard Malay, a language that didn't even have its own code element
until the last round of 639-3 changes, where it was split off from "Malay
(individual language)" which now means the varieties of non-standard Malay
varieties that are close enough to Standard Malay not to be classified as
separate Malayan languages. (At the code element level, the older code
element for "Malay (individual language) was retired to avoid narrowing.
This is very much like Arabic and Chinese.
So as you see, we are cherry-picking already.
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