Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

Randy Presuhn <randy underscore presuhn at mindspring dot com> wrote:

> It must be crystal clear that 'zh' does NOT mean Mandarin, but rather 
> any kind of Chinese.  Of course, there are cases where one might 
> deliberately be imprecise in tagging, but we should not be so sloppy 
> in our own definitions to equate the label for the superset with the 
> subset, just as we must avoid falsely limiting 'de' to "Standard 
> German" or 'ar' to "Standard Arabic".

We should decide whether this is the general sense of the working group, 
or if it's more along the lines of "Tagging non-Mandarin Chinese with 
'zh' is comparable to walking through dangerous neighborhoods in the 
middle of the night, blindfolded, with $100 bills pinned to one's body."

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