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

"Mark Davis" <mark.davis@icu-project.org> Thu, 05 June 2008 22:40 UTC

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From: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
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Agreed.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> > 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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Mark

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