Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM)

[Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]

I agree with Randy's comment below that in many cases, the fine-grained 
dialect identification is not always what's needed. I think language 
tagging from a business perspective must be descriptive and sometimes what 
you're describing is a cluster of variants, not a specific variant. Just 
as we cluster Brooklyn, Georgia, and California variants of en-US under 
the same tag, dude. There's no business reason to distinguish them at 
present.


Randy wrote:

> While tagging that distinction may be useful for some purpose, it's far
> too fine-grained for others.  If someone someday needs to register tags
> for Glasgow or for obscure Slovenian dialects, fine.  Though I think 
English
> as spoken in Fargo is "rather different" from English as spoken in 
> Minneapolis, it would be insane to preclude registration of a variant
> that included both, since for many purposes there is no value in
> making that distinction.

Regards,

Karen Broome
Sony Pictures Entertainment


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