Updated! LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM : es-americas

John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:17:26 -0400 (EDT)


Peter_Constable@sil.org scripsit:

> You're looking for a contrast that can be expressed in terms of a
> linguistic feature such as a pronominal difference, or a phonological
> difference. If I understand correctly, it has more to do with lexica and
> semantic ranges denoted by lexical items. The content in question uses
> vocabulary that limited in ways that result in text that is acceptable
> throughout the Americas, but not necessarily elsewhere (a given text may
> happen to be acceptable elsewhere, but that is not guaranteed). I'm sure
> this has been explained already.

Exactly so.

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