[Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: extlang

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 05 June 2008 08:07 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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Subject: [Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: extlang
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:24:48AM -0700,
 Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> wrote 
 a message of 46 lines which said:

> just as we must avoid falsely limiting 'de' to "Standard German" or
> 'ar' to "Standard Arabic".

Hold on. For Standard Arabic, the "proper" tag is "arb". But for
Standard German, what could be used instead of "de" if we change "de"
to mean "Any sort of German"?

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