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Re: [Ltru] grandfathered to redundant?



Phillips, Addison scripsit:
> In Section 3.4 (iana stability) we have rules for transitioning
> grandfathered tags to redundant. Recently there was a thread on the list
> suggesting that the remaining regular grandfathered list is basically
> closed and cannot become redundant because of various other rules we
> have in place. Should we modify the text to say this? (It would be
> nice to get rid of extraneous rules for a change).

+1

> As I believe John Cowan pointed out, only 'lojban', 'gaulish',
> 'guoyu', 'hakka', and 'xiang' could ever become variants. Of these,
> only 'gaulish' has some semblance of residual meaning as a variant
> (and this one not much). The others are, without exception, deprecated
> in favor of something else.

cel-gaulish would be semantically anomalous anyhow: a language collection
followed by a language variant, with no actual *language*.  I say it's
a dead duck.

-- 
In my last lifetime,                            John Cowan
I believed in reincarnation;                    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
in this lifetime,                               cowan at ccil.org
I don't.  --Thiagi
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