Generic variant subtags in RFC 3066bis

[Marion Gunn]

Absolutely true (on both counts). 
mg

Scríobh Caoimhin O Donnaile:
> 
> > When the RFC 3066bis registry is up and running, I intend to propose
> > some highly generic variant subtags which may be used with many
> > languages. Some examples that come to mind are -northern, -southern,
> > -eastern, -western, and -central for geographical dialects; -ancient
> > and -middle for earlier versions of languages (-old being too short);
> > and -highreg, -midreg, and -lowreg for sociolinguistic registers.
> 
> Aren't such terms highly specific to each language, subject to the
> conventions of scholarship within that language, and non-orthogonal?
> 
> E.g. "Middle Irish" is 900-1200 roughly, whereas "Middle English"
> is 1100-1500.  "Clasical Irish" is 1200-1650, whereas "Classical Latin"
> is much earlier(!), and the term "Classical English" is not normally
> used at all.
> 
>    http://www.iol.ie/~pemsch/project99/comen7.htm
>    http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm
> 
> Caoimhín

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Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991)
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