Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami language situation as example

Phillips, Addison scripsit:

> Since we have the direct testimony of the folks who conceived of
> macrolanguage, I don't see any reason why anyone would believe
> otherwise. 

The very essence of a cover story is that it's direct testimony.
But I do not at all believe that "the wise Havard and the noble
Peter" are deceiving us about their motives.

> One of the problems macrolanguage brings
> us is that it is *not* just a "cover story": ISO 639-3 made an honest
> effort to catalog all macrolanguages, not just the ones that are useful
> to us. 

To be precise, they cataloged the ones that had 639-2 tags already.  There
was no tag for Romanian/Moldovan, and they did not create one.

-- 
John Cowan   <cowan@ccil.org>   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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