<div>I was not talking about the particular case of Ulster Scots. I'm happy with that proposal, as revised. I was talking about the general principle that Doug was discussing.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br><br>— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:01, John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.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 â?? scripsit:<br>
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> But for for the prefix model of BCP47 to work well, the obvious "parents" of<br>
> V should be registered. For example, suppose that I wanted to register<br>
> Beckmeier's orthography of Valley Girl English (as opposed to Tedesco's or<br>
> Humphrey-Brookrock's). It doesn't mean that I need to have Tedesco's<br>
> or Humphrey-Brookrock's registered also, but it does mean that I should<br>
> register Valley Girl English, so that we can have en-US as a prefix<br>
> for valygirl, and en-US-valygirl as a prefix for beckmeie.<br>
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</div>Quite so. However, the current (2 April) proposal says "The Ulster<br>
dialect of Scots", without reference to orthography. If the intended<br>
user is willing to let dialect imply orthography, then that should be<br>
good enough.<br>
<br>
There are, after all, works written in the U.S. dialect of English using<br>
British orthography -- not only pre-1828 ones, but the occasional anomaly<br>
like my edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's _Powers_ (2007), which for some<br>
reason (though it claims to be printed in the U.S.) uses a number of<br>
British spellings as well as many American ones. Nevertheless, people<br>
normally use en-US for both the distinctive dialect and the distinctive<br>
orthography.<br>
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