> If gsw-alsatian is<br>
> also used on the other side of the Rhine, then it is not<br>
> clear to use gsw-FR for "alsatian as spoken in DE". <br>
<br>
I haven't seen yet a convincing case for a separate "alsatian". We need to remember that variant tags are not free:<br><ol><li>not everyone supports them (for example, Google doesn't)</li><li>if we present two ways of doing things, inevitably people will get mixed up.
</li></ol>For example, if we introduced "en-american" for American English, we would just cause confusion with "en-US" being used for that purpose. The broad variants of Alemanic that can reasonably be broadly distinguished by the tags gsw-FR, gsw-DE, and gsw-CH should just use those tags as is.
<br><br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 2:20 PM, Frank Ellermann <<a href="mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de">nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:<br><br>>>> I would say that "alsatian" and "gsw-FR" are almost<br>>>> the same thing but not completely.<br><br>>> Which means what?
<br><br>> That I think that using "gsw-FR" to mean "alsatian" is<br>> acceptable, if not ideal.<br><br></div>A case where it would be not ideal: If gsw-alsatian is<br>also used on the other side of the Rhine, then it is not
<br>clear to use gsw-FR for "alsatian as spoken in DE". (*1)<br><br>Opposite case: gsw-CH is a broad tag, taggers could try<br>to use gsw-FR for "gsw-CH as used in regions of CH where<br>French is the predominant language".
<br><br>The variant alsatian is clearer than gsw-FR workarounds.<br><br> Frank<br><font color="#888888">--<br>*1: Actually I don't *think* that's the case, but to be<br> sure I'd had to ask folks living in Kehl (the German
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