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Re: Pinyin

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Wed, 24 September 2008 20:02 UTC

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On 24 Sep 2008, at 20:26, David Starner wrote:

> But whether or not that distinction is important may not be something
> the tagger knows; a librarian tagging recordings is probably better
> off tagging km-US, es-US and pqm-US for recordings of those language
> as spoken by Americans in the US then fussing over the fine details of
> dialectal variation in those languages.

Seems to me the librarian would be better off tagging km, es, and pqm  
if she doesn't know better.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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