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[Ltru] Re: extlang

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Tue, 19 June 2007 21:23 UTC

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Hi -

> From: "Addison Phillips" <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
> To: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
> Cc: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru@ietf.org>; "Doug Ewell" <dewell@roadrunner.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: extlang (was Re: Suggested language for "mis" (Re: [Ltru] RE:ISO 639-2 decision: "mis"))
... 
> I take it you're suggesting (or interpreted the proposal) to mean that 
> the macrolanguage would contain a pointer or pointers to its 
> sublanguages. Hence something like:
...

I don't think that is being proposed at all.  Stephane just asked:

> > Let me check that I understand. The only way, currently, to see if a
> > language is a macrolanguage is to check if there exists at least one
> > extlang which references it in its Prefix field? Correct?

If whether a language is a macrolanguage is an important property,
then it is worth discussing whether it should be flagged in its
record, rather than requiring it to be computed by examining all
other records.

Randy



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