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"Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com> Wed, 24 September 2008 18:03 UTC

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From: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>
To: David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>, "ietf-languages@iana.org" <ietf-languages@iana.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:03:15 -0700
Subject: RE: Pinyin
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> >
> > Who cares?  It is complete bollocks in either case, as much so as
> nv-DK or tlh-AQ.
> 
> km-US and tr-DE make sense; even if bo-TW doesn't exist today, it
> doesn't seem that unlikely a combination to appear in the future.

The question is whether that variation would use a different Pinyin transliteration scheme from Tibetan Tibetan. My guess is probably not, but that's, of course, a hypothetical hypothetical. 

Addison

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