Re: [Ltru] Editorial fix

Marion Gunn <mgunn@egt.ie> Fri, 18 April 2008 12:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Editorial fix
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Scríobh Mark Davis:
> That is overblown.
Fine. Given the likelihood of continuing difficulties around that 
definition, despite protracted discussion of it, I felt moved to put on 
the record my suggestion. Thanks for allowing me to do so.
> That line is merely an introductory sentence to give people a sense of 
> what a language tag looks like, not a definition. The precise formal 
> definition is below it, and anyone reading the document will see it. 
> There is no need to make an introductory statement hard to understand 
> -- we have plenty of opportunity to do that later...
Is it possible to detect a note of humour in the above? For my part, not 
presuming to do so, of course.
mg
>
> Mark
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Marion Gunn <mgunn@egt.ie 
> <mailto:mgunn@egt.ie>> wrote: 
> 'Apart from the exception(s) specifically listed at [state where], a 
> language tag consists of a "primary language" subtag and a (possibly 
> empty) series of subsequent subtags whose sole purpose is to refine or 
> narrow the range of languages identified by the overall tag.' ...

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