Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthographies
John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Thu, 15 February 2007 15:21 UTC
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To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthographies
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Peter Constable scripsit: > From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] > > > But I, at least, am certainly not proposing making en/eng > > into a macrolanguage. A macrolanguage covering ang, mne, > > eng, and sco, yes. > > Go back and read the description of "macrolanguage" and tell me in > what context that would apply to all of these? When is it useful to > treat all of these as a single language? When you are dealing with texts that are close to the boundaries of any pair (okay, not sco/ang or eng/ang, I admit, but there are other macrolanguages like that already). -- I suggest you call for help, John Cowan or learn the difficult art of mud-breathing. cowan@ccil.org --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
- [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthograph… Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthograph… CE Whitehead
- [Ltru] RE: Macrolanguages, countries & orthograph… Don Osborn
- [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthograph… Mark Davis
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… Mark Davis
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… David Starner
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… David Starner
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… Peter Constable
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguages, countries & orthog… John Cowan