Last call: Latvian (and Bontok) extlang subtags

Kent Karlsson kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se
Mon Feb 8 10:34:58 CET 2010


Den 2010-02-08 10.26, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:

> On 8 Feb 2010, at 09:18, Kent Karlsson wrote:
> 
>> Indeed, my position is that **NO** more *extlang* subtags should be
>> registered. (That is easy for the reviewer too...)
> 
> Yes, Kent. I know. It has been explained to me that in the LTRU
> discussions Doug (for instance) took the view that
> 
> * the total set of extlang-able macrolanguages should be open to
> expansion when ISO 639-3 decides to convert an existing individual
> language code element to a macrolanguage
> 
> (in which case I should approve both lv and bnc)

Not even Dough and John take that position.

> and that you took the view that
> 
> * that the total set was intended to be fixed and not expandable
> 
> (in which case I should reject both lv and bnc)
> 
> Now John is saying that I should not be using *linguistic* judgement

That has been the case for extlangs all along (since the compromise in
LTRU).

    /kent k

> at all, but approve one and reject the other on the basis of knowledge
> which I did not have.
> 
> It seems to me that a hames was made of this by the LTRU. There's
> little to guide me, and the judgement I'm to make it isn't
> *linguistic*. So I'm afraid this group is going to have to rehash the
> basics of what extlangs are for, so that some sort of coherent policy
> can be set.
> 
> I would now like to call on Peter Constable for his opinion.
> 
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
> 
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