Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

["Phillips, Addison" <[e-mail]>]

> >
> > It is always permissible to tag US English as 'en'. It is
> > also permissible, within one's own application, to require
> > that people who want something other than US English to us a
> > different tag from 'en'. For example, they can be required to
> > use the tag 'en-GB'.
> >
> > What is not permissible is to dismiss someone else's UK
> > English content tagged as 'en' as wrong.
>
>
> You're comparing an apple/pear situation with a peach/nectarine
> situation, if you allow me the analogy. There are differences
> between ("standard") en-US and ("standard") en-GB, sure. But
> it is (most often) VERY small compared to differences between
> languages covered by a macrolanguage code.

Yes. Actually, see my just-posted message. I know this is the case, but I was attempting to draw an illustrative analogy without getting carried away.

> The latter varies
> in degree of difference, but for zh, someone (who I think knows
> this) compared cmn/yue differences as en par with fr/es
> differences, in addition pointing out that the difference was
> greater than between Scandinavian languages.

There are many flavors of difference. How well-received those differences are depends on the specific case. In the 'en' case, one might be satisfied pretty well with the US English information, regardless of which flavo(u)r one prefers. In the 'zh' case, perhaps this is less the case. It doesn't invalidate the problem.

(laughing) For example, when I typed the above paragraph, my spell checker "fixed" 'flavour' to 'flavor' automagically. I had to fix it to make it stick (before deciding to include the parens). If I had requested UK English, I might have been peeved at that.

>
> I'm sure you would not want a macrolanguage code for fr/es,
> even if there was a way to get that (like way back when...),
> nor recommend using a collection code for Gallo-Iberian
> for language tagging.
>

No, but, again, that's not my point. My point is that one can use less-specific tags consciously and deliberately to create a specific effect.

Addison
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