<br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:26, John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mark Davis â?? scripsit:<br>
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> As far as I know, all Swiss Germans consider Walliserdeutsch to be a<br>
> kind of Swiss German, and Swiss German to be a kind of German.<br>
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</div>The issue here is not what Swiss Germans think, but what language taggers<br>
(among whom librarians are a large and important subset) actually do.<br>
An argument of the form "in case X, we should do D, therefore in case Y,<br>
we should do D as well" depends on whether X and Y are truly parallel,<br>
and the burden of persuasion is with the believer, not the skeptic.<br>
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> and by the way, if ISO were consistent, de would also be a macrolanguage<br>
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</div>Only if "de" means "German" rather than "Standard German".<br></blockquote><div><br>Well, it <i>does</i> mean "German" and not "Standard German", according to us:<br>
<br><pre>%%<br>Type: language<br>Subtag: de<br>Description: German<br>Added: 2005-10-16<br>Suppress-Script: Latn<br></pre> </div><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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No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan<br>
useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that <a href="http://www.ccil.org/%7Ecowan" target="_blank">http://www.ccil.org/~cowan</a><br>
address all questions by piling on ridiculous <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>
internal links in forms which are hideously<br>
over-complex. --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev<br>
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