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Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage usage

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Sun, 25 May 2008 00:56 UTC

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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Doug Ewell


> I ask the co-chairs to settle this matter with a third consensus-call
> question:
>
> Q3: If we did go back to using "extlang," we could combine this subtag
>     with the region subtag, and require that at most one of the two be
>     used in a single tag.  Possible responses:  (pick ONE)
>         A - I would like this.
>         B - I could live with this.
>         C - I would object to this.
>
> Remember that we did create such a "Leif rule" for the purpose of
> allowing two-letter extlangs, as in "no-nn", then:

If the question is whether to allow tags of the form "no-nn", then my answer is

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCc

I would strongly object.


Peter
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