Ok, so far so good. It sounds like we agree that the reference name for gsw in 639-3 should be "Swiss German", and that that should be the first name listed in 639-2. What would be the right channels in ISO to get this fixed?
<br><br>I would also question that "Alemanic" should even be mentioned, since I really don't think it is common at all to refer to it as "Alemanic" (except mistakenly), but that is clearly of somewhat lesser importance.
<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Constable</b> <<a href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com">petercon@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="blue" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue;">It is not the case that 639-3 lists "<span>Alemanic</span>" as the *<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">sole
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name for <span>gsw</span>; it lists "Swiss German" as well. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="blue" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue;">However, it does appear that the current
draft does use "<span>Alemanic</span>" as the reference name,
which I agree is a bad choice since it is misleading, and that "Swiss German" would
be a better choice: even if the appropriateness of "<span>Alemanic</span>"
is in question, "Swiss German" is not and, among English-language names, is the
most commonly used.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:mark.edward.davis@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mark.edward.davis@gmail.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mark.edward.davis@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mark.edward.davis@gmail.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Mark Davis<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The only reason it does have to do with LTRU is that we are considering
adding 639-3, and 639-3 lists "Alemanic" as the *sole* name for gsw,
which is clearly incorrect. Thus it raises the issue of whether to take the
639-3 names wholesale, or allow corrections. </span></font></p>
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