Early Modern English

[Mark Davis ☕]

> It is redundant in that its final -e is captured in en-emode.
...
> 1611kjv or 1623skak [shak?] or 1590spen ?
...

Choosing such names, in my opinion, just is pointlessly obscure for users
of BCP47, and make-work for this committee. It would be far better to have
understandable names like:

en-middle


Initially have a prefix of 'en' and then have the description be:

For English, the period from YYY to ZZZ
// or whatever is the appropriate description


As additional languages are added, more prefixes and descriptions can be
added. So in the future we could add :

For Italian, the period from WWW to UUU
// or whatever is the appropriate description



Mark
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:23, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:

> On 12 Jan 2012, at 16:40, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >> I'm not much tempted by "en-emode" as a tag. Cawdry or another
> >> description would be more interesting.
> >
> > Cawdrey's work is a glossary, as Doug noted.  And your "interesting" is
> my "obscure".
>
> Fine. I think "emode" is a bad subtag. It looks like "e-mode". It is
> redundant in that its final -e is captured in en-emode.
>
> Doug, please look at the precedent we used for early French. Thank you.
>
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