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<BR> <BR><BR>Hi.<BR>CE Whitehead cewcathar at hotmail.com <BR>Thu Apr 1 17:23:12 CEST 2010 <BR>> Phillips, Addison addison at amazon.com <BR>> Wed Mar 31 16:55:57 CEST 2010 <BR><BR>>> I'm not a big fan, personally, of dated subtags. They are non-mnemonic, unattractive, and could be misleading (things >> published in 1603 might use the 1606 orthography). It is just as possible that a new wordlist gets published (next year >> or ninety years from now) and it still be considered the same orthography (new words are created all the time) and <BR>
>> thus still "2006ulst" even though there exists, say, a 2010 revision thereof.<BR>>> If a date is reasonable and meaningful for a given orthography, I'm all for it. But this case doesn't *necessarily* fit.<BR>>Maybe ulster ?<BR>> or ulster (or lallans though I think lallans is now dated)-robinson ? That is, to register a variant for the dialect and <BR>
> then one for the orthography?<BR>> Or ulster-2006 ? that is o.k. too.<BR>Oops! I met ulster (or ullans)-robinson<BR>and not (lallans)-robinson.<BR>
(Sorry.)<BR>I do agree that a subtag such as 2006 would scare away some users -- although I'm not sure how many;<BR>2006ulst might be a bit easier to make sense of (but ulster-2006 would be better still, but I agree that people are going to drop the 2006 in this case).<BR>Kent Karlsson kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se <BR>Thu Apr 1 21:52:05 CEST 2010 <BR><BR>> But then the registration request should be amended to refer to the<BR>> Ulster dialect, rather than a specific orthography.<BR>Cannot it refer to the orthography of the specific dialect?<BR>But I do still support registering a separate subtag to cover the othography.<BR>But it's up to Michael I guess; he can cover both language and orthography with one subtag if that's his preference; or he can have two subtags.<BR>Best,<BR>--C. E. Whitehead<BR><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A><BR>> /kent k<BR><BR> <BR><BR>                                            </body>
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