Stéphane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:
A few editorial details:* "inverted", used several times, does not seem to be formally defined somewhere
I did include an example at the end of this paragraph (second bullet point of Section 2.1):
"For example, this file contained an entry for the code element ‘prs’ with the name “Dari” (twice) and another entry with the names 'Eastern Farsi' and 'Farsi, Eastern'."
Would it be better to annotate these examples or actually provide a formal definition? For the former, I might suggest:
"... and another entry with the non-inverted name 'Eastern Farsi' and the corresponding inverted name 'Farsi, Eastern'."
For the latter, a new sentence like this might be inserted after the sentence ending with "appropriate":
"An 'inverted' name is one which is altered from the usual English-language order by moving adjectival qualifiers to the front, before the main language name, and separated by a comma."
Let me know which alternative (possibly edited) might be better.
* I'm a bit concerned that the rationale for the list of macrolanguages in 2.2 is not exposed. If you want to know why Akan is treated differently from Uzbek, you have to dig into the LTRU archives.
This is expressed in the second sentence of the second paragraph, right after the list:
"These macrolanguage subtags were already present in the Language Subtag Registry and were determined by the LTRU Working Group to have been used to represent a single dominant language as well as the macrolanguage as a whole, making the extended language mechanism suitable for languages encompassed by the macrolanguage."
Should this sentence be more explicit in stating the reason for singling out these languages? Maybe something like this:
"... and were chosen because they were determined by the LTRU Working Group to have been used..."
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