Counting Heads

[Addison Phillips [wM]]

I hate my spell checker. That would be: "Of course Boontling *was*
designed", as I had no part in it (certainly) and have only been to
Booneville a few times ;-)

Addison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Addison
> Phillips [wM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:50 PM
> To: John Cowan
> Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: RE: Counting Heads
>
>
> > Addison Phillips [wM] scripsit:
> >
> > > I agree, but it violates the hypothesis I'm making about
> subsidiary tags
> > > (which, of course, could be balderdash).
> >
> > Not balderdash, just malarkey.  :-)
>
> Yup. Non-scottish.
> >
> > > I mean, I'd guess you wouldn't have a problem with, say,
> en-latn-boont?
> >
> > No, I still prefer en-boont-latn.  En-boont is syntactically
> English, but
> > lexically it's very different.  Look again at the two samples I posted
> > back when en-boont was registered:
> >
> Of course Boontling we *designed* (if you can call it that) not to be
> (externally) intelligible, sort of an anti-Esperanto. Sitting here nursing
> my horn of zeese[*] I can see that my mental model works only if
> one factors
> the registered tags and their subtags according to what each element
> actually does.
>
> Addison
>
> [*] that would be 'cup of coffee' in en-US.
>
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