Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage usage

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Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: 16 May 2008 02:40
> To: LTRU Working Group
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage usage
>
> Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:
>
> > - where content written in an encompassed language is also
> > understandable in the predominant language (that being a distinct
> > language encompassed by the same macrolanguage), the content could
> > also be tagged with the macrolanguage identifier. Thus if a
> Cantonese
> > passage is understandable if read as Mandarin, it could
> also be tagged
> > with "zh", or where a Tajiki Arabic passage is also
> understandable in
> > Standard Arabic it could be tagged with "ar".
>
> Cantonese "is a" Chinese, it falls under the Chinese
> macrolanguage umbrella, and therefore it could legitimately
> be tagged with "zh"
> whether or not it is understandable if read as Mandarin.
>
> Unfortunately, this wording takes us back to the mindset that
> Chinese = Mandarin = "zh", and other Chinese languages are
> not "zh".  I thought we had just agreed not to do that.
>
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