It is absolutely not disingenuous; by the phrasing of messages on this list there are clearly people who don't care as much about stability as others do.<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Doug Ewell</b> <<a href="mailto:dewell@adelphia.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dewell@adelphia.net</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;">
Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:<br><br>> Moreover, while some may be perfectly willing to have stability go by<br>> the wayside, it is extremely important to us<br><br>I think this comment is really disingenuous; there is probably not a
<br>single member of this list who does not care at all about stability. It<br>is more a question of what can really be expected in the way of<br>"stability" when using collection codes, especially "Miscellaneous."
<br>They are not normatively defined in terms of their component languages,<br>even by ISO 639, let alone by RFC 4646 or its predecessors. One simply<br>cannot know for certain exactly what languages are covered under "mis",
<br>or whether that list will be the same next week.<br><br>I suspect this whole debate over "mis" is more of a thought-experiment,<br>based on what might happen when those who treat "mis" liberally clash
<br>with those who treat it conservatively, rather than developing out of<br>any real conflict in usage. I don't plan to worry about it much. We<br>have enough difficulty ironing out the real-world cases.<br><br>--
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