[Ltru] Re: New scripts

Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:

>> The only example I recall was, for lack of a better word,
>> "bureaucratese," meaning the peculiar varieties of language
>> preferred by the governmental and quasi-governmental
>> officials associated with the EU.  I have heard it facetiously
>> called "mandarin English".
>
> IIRC I used "eurocrat" as *example* here or on the review
> list months ago, nobody ever tried to register a variant
> for this.

In June 2003 there was a serious proposal to register a variant tag for 
Newspeak, as described in Orwell's "1984."  The proposal was quite 
sensibly rejected.

I can hardly believe that four years later, and supposedly four years 
wiser, we have arrived at the point where, having identified a brand of 
jargon much less radical than Newspeak, and not nearly as well defined, 
we wish not merely to register a variant subtag for it, but to change 
the registration rules to permit the addition of a *region* subtag for 
it.

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