LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION - GB
Debbie Garside
md at ictmarketing.co.uk
Thu Apr 20 18:05:42 CEST 2006
John wrote:
> Otherwise, no one source should be treated as an authority on
> anything.
+ 1
One could go into lots of detail in relation to representative samples,
margin of error and confidence levels. However, it might be just a tad off
topic for this list ;-)
Debbie Garside
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: 20 April 2006 16:50
> To: Jon Hanna
> Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION - GB
>
> Doug Ewell scripsit:
>
> > >You're correct; that's different from saying that you personally
> > >advocated it. I'm certainly one of those readers who sees
> Wikipedia
> > >as accurate much more often than not, and probably would have used
> > >"roa" to tag such content if John Cowan had not steered me
> away from it.
>
> To clarify: I suggested avoiding roa-{GG,JE} not because they
> are or are not correct, but because I think using an ISO
> 639-2 collective language code with a country code to
> represent an individual language or dialect is a Bad Idea,
> and not in accordance with 3066bis principles.
>
> Jon Hanna scripsit:
>
> > I think Wikipedia is a good starting point for research,
> but useless
> > when you want something authoritative (tbh, I think the
> > autoritativeness of Encyclopedia Brittanica is often
> overstated too).
>
> The study to which Debbie refers in a later message has been
> widely debated; personally, I think the fact that it only
> examined a few articles invalidates it on its face.
>
> In general, the concept of "authoritative source" makes
> little sense to me, except in personal contexts (I'm an
> authoritative source on what I had for dinner) and
> performative ones ("US" is the ISO 3166 code for the United
> States of America because 3166/MA says so and they are authoritative).
> Otherwise, no one source should be treated as an authority on
> anything.
>
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