acade - LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

Yury Tarasievich yury.tarasievich at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 19:23:10 CEST 2008


Michael Everson wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2008, at 16:40, Ihar Mahaniok wrote:
>
>> Was 1959 revision more important than 1933 and 2008 revisions?
>>
>> And, the problem I see with this proposal is that it is unclear (from
>> the tag itself) whether it is supposed to cover 2008 revision as well
>> or not.
>
> In my opinion if there is only to be ONE subtag for this it should be 
> for the one that you could make a spell-checker or Wikipedia with. I'd 
> have no problem with three of them, if each pointed to an 
> authoritative dictionary or grammar.
>
The 1959 is sensible candidate, then. The 2008 rev. is yet to be 
introduced and the 1985 rev. was too minor. In fact, 1985 might occur, 
in fact, to be nothing more than the "maintenance changes" (denoted in 
foreword to Academic edition of grammar of 1985).

-Yury


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