Reminder: ISO 639-3 changes are coming

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Sun Nov 15 22:30:52 CET 2009


From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell

> The fuzzy part, of course, is "must have a literature."  The overly 
> ambitious language inventor might try to claim that his translations 
> of "Happy Birthday to You" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb," posted 
> on his Web site, constitute a literature.

That is most certainly not the intent of ISO 639-3. The intent is that there needs to be content exchanged in an existing, open user community. 


Peter


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