pinyin (and wadegile) request has gotten derailed

[John Cowan]

Peter Constable scripsit:

> IIRC, in dialect surveys conducted by SIL to support research on the
> Ethnologue, a 20% lexical dissimilarity is generally treated as likely
> indicating significant barriers to functional intelligibility. Lexical
> similarity is, I think, a good analogy for orthographic similarity,
> and so I suspect Randy has a very valid point.

I am *not* proposing the same tag for HYPY and TYPY, only the use of a
common language subtag and a common variant subtag.

In eny case, a 20% orthografic dissimilarity iz not a verry large barrier
to mutchual intelligibility if the transformations ar systematic with
no restructchuring.

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[P]olice in many lands are now complaining that local arrestees are insisting
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