Doug Ewell 2008-10-03 04.31: [...]
The finer-grained our language tagging solutions become, such as "no-1907" versus "no-1917", the less likely it is that all of these use cases will be met.
The disadvantages are also the advantages: You don't want "nn-1907" to be spelling checked like current "nn", so it may be fine if the computer does not try to spell-check "nn-1917". (Perhaps the alternative would be to "un-tag", or use an incorrect tag for texts following the 1917 norm, in order to avoid such spell-checking.)
OTOH, a variant can sometimes come in place for a new language subtag - and thus can keep things together rather than be splitting. E.g. I understand that some prefer Resian to be registered as its own language. So this hints that variant subtags can also simplify and join rather than complicate and split.
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So before we assume that we'll eventually have lots of 1917's and 1959's and 1994's colliding with each other, and need to make sure all of them can coexist, we might want to think about whether these are distinctions that need to be made in language tags.
The alterantive will often be x-private subtags, I think. And they are even harder to get computers or people to handle.
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