Re: [Ltru] Re: extlang

Marion Gunn <mgunn@egt.ie> Thu, 30 August 2007 17:05 UTC

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From: Marion Gunn <mgunn@egt.ie>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: extlang
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:05:17 +0000
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On 29 Aug 2007, at 13:13, scríobh John Cowan:

> Note that it's the "microlanguages" (not an official term), the  
> languages
> encompassed by macrolanguages, that are handled by extlang subtags...
>

I strongly object to the use of the above unofficial term, which John  
Cowan is now using this list to promote (as evidenced in a recent msg  
from him, as cited below) and I believe that, if the administrators  
of this list _fail_ to deprecate his use of such an objectionable  
term, that this may be an appropriate time for representatives of the  
National Bodies of governments of the countries whose indigenous  
languages he has so denigrated (by his deliberate use of said  
unofficial term) to withdraw any provisional support they may have  
given until now to the use of the term "macrolanguages" (because that  
provisional support for treating that term as "official" would seem  
to be providing the opportunity to use an objectionable word to  
denigrate languages without even naming them).
mg




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