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Re: [Ietf-languages] Language subtag registration form

Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> Fri, 27 November 2020 21:22 UTC

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Michael Everson wrote:

> I don’t know if I prefer “variety” to “dialect” but there really isnt
> a need to have “Archaic” in scare quotes in the Comments field.

I think the scare quotes are there because it's not truly archaic, having been invented after normal Esperanto, but is meant to evoke the feeling of being an archaic form.

> Having said that, wouldn't modern Esperantists will find the subtag
> “arkaika” easier to recognize and remember than “arcaicam”? 

Probably intended to be recognizable from the vantage point of AE, rather than normal Esperanto.

> Did he “define” it or “devise” it? I think the latter.

I agree with this.

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