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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 05:27:38 +0100
To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@jefsey.com>
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Subject: Re: IANA registration issues not covered by the "RFC 3066bis" draft
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At 04:21 29/01/2005, John Cowan wrote:
> > Just something: languages belong to 6.2 billions people what averages to
> > a minimum of 62.000 languages as people tend to diversify and one
> > commonly accepts that a language cannot survive with less than 100.000
> > speakers (but that figure may drastically be reduced with computer
> > assistance and in special cases). Also a same person can speak several
> > languages. So I would think the real need is for a flexible (intuitive,
> > i.e. no reviewer) tagging of a minimum around 150.000 languages, some of
> > them with different scripts.
>
>Ah, Jefsey, you missed your calling; you should have been a writer of
>comedies.  Such a wholesale return of fantasy on such a small investment
>of fact!  I tell you what; we'll register the 6000-7000 actual languages,
>you register the 143,000 imaginary ones.

Now, I know how serious and gallant you are about all this. Hats off!

If I consider this list will take no more than three days to discuss a 
language and all the countries it is spoken and written, there will never 
be an appeal, Michael will "suffer" the rythm and the IANA will take its 
delay down to one month or so, so you don't waste time disputing that what 
you approved has already changed, this means a 18.000 to 21.000 days work 
ahead.

I am impressed, all the more than you will all be dead in the meanwhile, 
you and your sons, by age or by exhaustion !!!

jfc  

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