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

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Thu, 05 June 2008 20:17 UTC

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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Randy Presuhn


> > 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"?
>
> An appropriately registered subtag following de, if someone has a need
> to make the distinction.  (I don't see it as a change at all.  Perhaps
> it's
> because I used to teach German, but for me "Standard German" is a
> narrowly defined and somewhat artificial beast, not to be confused
> with the welter of mutually intelligible varieties of German (i.e.,
> 'de') spoken all over the world.)

For which, variant subtags sound just right.



Peter
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