It appears not to make much difference; they blithely did it with Lithuanian. The discussion with respect to German has gotten off track; my view is that they should have treated ALL ISO 639-2/1 codes as if the language name were prefixed by standard; Standard French, Standard Arabic, Standard Chinese. Then we wouldn't always be faced with the potential instability of changing a perfectly normal language code into a macrocode.<div>
<br></div><div>But I agree that this discussion is pointless, and I'll say no more on it.</div><div><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:55, Doug Ewell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@ewellic.org">doug@ewellic.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Mark Davis 🍵 <mark at macchiato dot com> wrote:<br>
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> I'm not making myself clear.<br>
><br>
> If the argument is that ISO 639-3 can't make a change in X *because<br>
> **the Ethnologue says Y, *it doesn't hold water, because the<br>
> Ethnologue is neither part of nor normatively referenced by ISO 639-3.<br>
<br>
To paraphrase myself from earlier, if ISO 639-3/RA is considering a<br>
change with which one or more of us disagrees -- say, hypothetically,<br>
converting 'deu' to a macrolanguage -- then we should lobby ISO 639-3/RA<br>
to reject the change request, not discuss it to death on this list<br>
before it has even been requested.<br>
<br>
Please let's change the Subject line when appropriate.<br>
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