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Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Tue, 27 May 2008 08:09 UTC

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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Leif Halvard Silli


> The one steadfast opinion I have had, is that since Norwegian and
> Serbo-Croatian and perhaps others two letter coded languages that
> are macrolanguages or encompassed langauges cannot be part of the
> Extlang approach, then no languages should follow the Extlang
> approach...

> However, finally I came to the conclusion, that an extlang
> approach is what I would have wanted for Norwegian. And therefore
> I decided to vote for Extlang so that at least other languages in
> similar situations could have the benefit of it.

And yet, not all other macrolanguage cases are similar situations to Norwegian or to Serbo-Croatian.

So is it perhaps still the case that you might have voted against Q1 and for Q2 without realizing that Q2 did not have the same benefits for as many cases as you thought?



Peter
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