><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Mark, I found with your "cap-in-hand" remark to be offensive and <span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>> </span>dismissive. Now you want to play the Dr/Mr game?
<br><br>Not particularly. When I look back over the email trail, I can see that probably each person was taking offense at something that was probably not meant to be offensive, so I withdraw any remarks I made that you found offensive. (And by the way, I've seen some people without a college degree outperform some with a doctorate -- I didn't mean my comments that way. Sorry to have hit a sensitive spot.)
<br><br>The main point I was trying to make is that with generative tags people can form combinations that (a) are meaningful, and (b) don't require registration. That is the whole purpose of RFC4646. We explicitly don't weed out the empty combinations like en-Cyrl-AQ, because as long as the meaning of the subtags is well-defined, it is interchangeable.
<br><br>And to that degree, fr-1500s probably makes as much sense as fr-CA in terms of defining a reasonably meaningful language-tag, and far more useful than the perfectly legal en-Cyrl-AQ.<br><br>Mark<br><br>