<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I agree completely with Yury here. I am convinced that 1959acad is the most suitable and appropriate subtag. I urge you all to approve the compromise registration I put forward today.</div><div><br></div>On 23 Sep 2008, at 12:14, Yury Tarasievich wrote:<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear Mark and all protesters on the lines of:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The sources cited by Yury are NOT restricted to 1959, and 1959 should <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">not be part of the subtag.<br></blockquote><br>You are showing somewhat insufficient acquantaince with the subject at hand.<br><br>The sources cited by me all refer to the *same* specific literary norm, <br>which was actually decreed on May 11, 1957 (!) as "changes and <br>corrections" to the previous norm, was introduced into the official use <br>on January 1, 1958 and into the schooling on September 1, 1958. However, <br>the first rulebook was published in 1959, and so the norm is popularly <br>and overwhelmingly associated with the year 1959. The academic editions <br>of the grammar came out later, and both those and the vocabularies are <br>re-published periodically in the new editions. The works on phonology <br>also relate to the literary norm discussed here, which is signified both <br>by the titles and by the introductions.<br><br>Now, it is precisely the "1959 norm" (or "1959 grammar" or "1959 <br>orthography"), as defined in quoted references, which is the actually <br>obliging, academic literary norm in the official use in Belarus in 2008 <br>CE etc. etc. Only when (if) the changes decreed in 2008 become <br>officially part of the literary norm, then there will be possibly the <br>need of the 2010acad tag, and of referring to the "2010 norm" etc.<br><br>I wonder how this is so confusing. All these troubles with the <br>supposedly "unacceptional" nature of the 1959 part of the tag seem to be <br>somewhat imaginary. As seen by me, of course.<br><br>-Yury<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ietf-languages mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ietf-languages@alvestrand.no">Ietf-languages@alvestrand.no</a><br>http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-monospace'; ">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>