Applying for a Neo Subtag

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Mon Mar 7 23:17:40 CET 2011


Thai, for instance.

Peter

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Mark Davis ? (si??p ????)
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 12:44 PM
To: Michael Everson
Cc: ietflang IETF Languages Discussion
Subject: Re: Applying for a Neo Subtag

It's all been off topic with this sentence ;-)

> That's a very anglo-centric view, isn't it?

Not particularly: English is also defective in that respect; there are many languages that are less inflected than English.

Mark

— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:12, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com<mailto:everson at evertype.com>> wrote:
On 7 Mar 2011, at 18:47, Mark Davis ☕ (sıʌɐp ʞɹɐɯ) wrote:

> Unfortunate that so many of the artificial languages chose to use inflections and gender; if you're going to go to all the bother of inventing an artificial language, you might as well get rid of that baggage as well.
That's a very anglo-centric view, isn't it?

(OK, this is going to go off-topic very fast...)

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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