Re: The role of country codes/Not snazzy
Marion Gunn crossposted: Scríobh John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Jon Hanna scripsit: ... It's funny, just earlier today, I castigated a member of a list I manage for posting a contribution to another list without the author's permission, an act which some of us regard as seriously *un*professional. I guess netiquette is another one of those cultural things. -- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
Re: The role of country codes/Not snazzy
Marion Gunn scripsit: > These silly threads seem to indicate too many people on these two lists are > underemployed or interested in developing smokescreens for other activities. Insolence *and* paranoia. I see. > When a reference to using embryonic ISO 639-3 to 'legitimize' SIL's flawed > Ethnologue is let pass with no comment, Of course it's flawed. The whole idea of an unflawed list of languages is a pipe-dream, because "language" is not a well-defined concept. > John Cowan's pet 4-letter word (on ietf-l), Distinguo. I mentioned the word (as opposed to using it), I ellipsized the vowel (which was part of the point), and I clearly marked my remark as humor. > one has to ask why more serious professionals do > not sign off those lists. Feel free to do so at any time; I doubt you will be missed, and I have publicly promised not to pursue you beyond them. > en-IE is most commonly used to indicate a locale with a different > currency, etc., to either en-US or en-UK/GB. So it is, but the topic on ietf-languages is languages and their varieites and tags therefor, not labels for locales (IMHO a much more flawed concept). -- "And it was said that ever after, if anyJohn Cowan man looked in that Stone, unless he had a [EMAIL PROTECTED] great strength of will to turn it to other www.ccil.org/~cowan purpose, he saw only two aged hands withering www.reutershealth.com in flame." --"The Pyre of Denethor"
RE: The role of country codes/Not snazzy
Brian Doyle wrote: > on 5/29/03 9:15 AM, Marion Gunn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When a reference to using embryonic ISO 639-3 to > > 'legitimize' SIL's flawed > > Ethnologue is let pass with no comment > > Why is Ethnologue flawed? And how is this more on-topic on a mailing list called "Unicode List" than discussing a banner offered by the _Unicode_ Consortium to flag web pages encoded in _Unicode_? _ Marco
RE: The role of country codes/Not snazzy
These silly threads seem to indicate too many people on these two lists are underemployed or interested in developing smokescreens for other activities. When a reference to using embryonic ISO 639-3 to 'legitimize' SIL's flawed Ethnologue is let pass with no comment, but followed only by a feeding frenzy over a logo (on [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and more of Jon Hanna's mishearings of some English spoken in Ireland, plus John Cowan's pet 4-letter word (on ietf-l), one has to ask why more serious professionals do not sign off those lists. No disrespect to Sarasvati, who likes real debates on his unicode lists, or to the person(s) who convene the ietf list(s), but (in the hope of reaching people on those lists still interested in cultural diversity), may I say that en-IE is most commonly used to indicate a locale with a different currency, etc., to either en-US or en-UK/GB. mg Scríobh John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Jon Hanna scripsit: >... >> I still maintain that however, especially those examples of each >> of those dialects that are furthest from "received" en), I can't think of a >> single spelling difference between en-IE and en-GB, > >The vowel in "f*ck". :-) >... >-- >John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.ccil.org/~cowan -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
