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John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Thu, 25 September 2008 06:17 UTC

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To: Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
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Randy Presuhn scripsit:

> > I'm happy to exclude Tongyong now, and just leave the 'pinyin'
> > subtag to cover the various PRC romanizations based on Hanyu
> > Pinyin principles.
> 
> And the use case for lumping these together as a single variant is.... ???

That they are substantially similar in character, forming a family of
related orthographies, and that it is unnecessary to provide individual
subtags for them.

-- 
John Cowan    cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
        Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
        analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
                --E.H. Sturtevant, ca. 1945, probably at Yale

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