RE: [Ltru] Updated draft-4646bis...

["David Dalby" <[e-mail]>]

Why not(?):

A langtag may be formally valid but remain unrealized in meaning, e.g. ....


-----Original Message-----
From: David Dalby [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: 01 August 2007 16:33
To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; 'Marion Gunn'
Cc: 'LTRU Working Group'
Subject: RE: [Ltru] Updated draft-4646bis...

I agree!

David

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-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Garside [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: 01 August 2007 13:44
To: [e-mail]; 'Marion Gunn'
Cc: 'LTRU Working Group'
Subject: RE: [Ltru] Updated draft-4646bis...

Addison wrote:

> A tag can be valid yet meaningless.

I don't really like this as it seems, on the face of it, a contradiction in
terms.  I would propose one of the following:

---
A tag can be well formed yet meaningless.

A tag can be well formed in terms of syntax, and thus valid, yet meaningless
in terms of its attributes. For example, ... 

---

Best

Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Addison Phillips [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: 31 July 2007 16:52
> To: Marion Gunn
> Cc: LTRU Working Group
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Updated draft-4646bis...
> 
> Marion Gunn wrote:
>  >
>  > However, here goes with one more attempt:
>  >
>  > "For example, although a tag such as 'ar-Cyrl-CO' (Arabic, 
> as used in  > Columbia,  > written in Cyrillic script) is 
> valid, it is [most] unlikely to be of  > use, because  > such 
> combination of attributes is unlikely to occur in actual 
> language  > use."
>  >
> 
> I note that it is useful to look at the actual editor's copy 
> when suggesting minor editorial changes. Upon reflection, I 
> found the current sentence to be a bit of a run-on. I've 
> taken your suggestion of 'unlikely' and edited further such 
> that the paragraph now reads:
> 
> <t>Validity of a tag is not everything. A tag can be valid 
> yet meaningless. This is unavoidable with a generative system 
> like the language subtag mechanism. For example, a tag such 
> as "ar-Cyrl-CO" 
> (Arabic, Cyrillic script, as used in Colombia) is perfectly valid. 
> However, it is unlikely to be a useful tag, as it represents 
> an unlikely combination of language attributes that is 
> probably unrelated to any real language usage.</t>
> 
> After five minutes from now, you will need to comment on 
> draft-08. I'm always happy to consider editorial changes that 
> improve the text.
> 
> Addison
> 
> --
> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
> Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG
> 
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature.
> 
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