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Re: [Ietf-languages] Language subtag registration form

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 26 November 2020 03:13 UTC

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“Dialect", please. “Chronolect” is a nonsense. It is not a register because it has different accidence than Esperanto does. (Not just like English “thou hast”, but throughout the system. 

Michael

> On 25 Nov 2020, at 02:48, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 7:58 PM Sebastian Drude <drude@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> As to "Sociolect": A sociolect in principle is characteristic for a 
> certain social group in *all* their utterances, not just deliberately 
> applied in a subset of utterances -- this latter is exactly 
> characteristic of registers.  So I would strongly suggest that the word 
> be exchanged by "register".
> 
> I agree that either "register" or "chronolect" would be better in this case. 
> 
> John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org

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