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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 20 March 2007 12:36 UTC

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:13:44AM +0100,
 GerardM <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 155 lines which said:

> When you have a choice between ar-EG and arz and think you can say
> they are the same, how would you then code spoken Egyptian as used
> by the immigrant community in the USA ??

Easy: exactly the same as in his mother country. You do not change the
language you speak based on your physical location. It's not because
I'm currently in Prague that I write in en-CZ!

> I would say that ar-arz-US and arz-US are appropriate.

No, unless a special variant appeared among egyptian immigrants in the
USA (which is a possibility but not a necessity).

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