[Ltru] Re: proto-draft-10

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

> [i-sealand]
>> They speak, or spoke, English there, and maybe a bit of
>> Dutch.  Countries aren't the issue: languages are.
>
> And a bit of de-x-nazi at a critical period of the post-war
> Sealand history.  At later periods they might have spoken
> anything resulting in an increased pagerank for their Web
> pages and related activities (selling passports, etc.)

If you mean something like <span lang="de-x-nazi">Endlösung der 
Judenfrage</span> then this is specialized jargon, on a par with:

<span lang="en-x-baseball">Smith flied to left with two out.</span>
<span lang="en-x-labor">This is an organized shop.</span>

and whatever your favorite "Eurocrat" jargon might be.  Only in the last 
case have we decided this is a taggable distinction.

> There's no substantial difference between micronation and
> registered language, sooner or later somebody will try it
> for (putting it mildly) non-linguistic purposes.

Then it's the Reviewer's job, perhaps with help from the ietf-languages 
list members, to see through the ruse and refuse to register such a 
subtag.

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