Is there a subtag for 'plain English' or 'simplified English'

[Peter Constable]

Perhaps variant subtags "colloq" and "legal" (and perhaps others for
other registers of English usage). Of course, the vast majority of
English content is colloquial, so "colloq" would only get used in
particular application contexts, e.g. if you were maintaining a corpus
of documents used for training natural-language processing tools.

 

 

Peter

 

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Subject: Is there a subtag for 'plain English' or 'simplified English'

 

What would you suggest to indicate the difference between something
written in English and a simplified English "translation" of that
content. For example, the legal wording of a bill submitted to voters
and the "plain English" translation of that bill.

Would it be appropriate in this case to use a user extension? (e.g.
x-mysimplifiedenglish) 

If an alternative already exists, I understand it would be better not to
use a private use subtag, however this distinction may be too
idiosyncratic for a general tag. What do you think?

Regina Hoag 
Regina Hoag
Applications System Analyst/Programmer
SRCE - Scoring Technology 
609-734-5204 

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