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<DIV>Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>> Doug, what are your further thoughts about "Tudor"?</DIV>
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<DIV>Personally I can live with the subtag value 'tudor' so long as the</DIV>
<DIV>Description field still says "Early Modern English" and not "Tudor</DIV>
<DIV>English".</DIV>
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<DIV>I understand your concern with 'earlymod', that careless users might</DIV>
<DIV>ignore the Description and the Prefix, and use it for Early Modern
Na'vi</DIV>
<DIV>or whatever. But I also agree with Sean's point that a lot of EModE
was</DIV>
<DIV>written outside the Tudor historical period, and calling it "Tudor</DIV>
<DIV>English" would appear to exclude some of the best-known, most
commonly</DIV>
<DIV>cited examples.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm not as worried as Sean about the tag "en-tudor" applying to
"Hamlet"</DIV>
<DIV>but not to Bacon or Donne. On the one hand, the subtag value should
be</DIV>
<DIV>meaningful, but on the other hand, it is just a code element; the</DIV>
<DIV>Description field is what describes. I do think 'tudor' beateth,
sorry,</DIV>
<DIV>beats the hell out of '1611kjv' or '1623shak' or '1590spen', all of</DIV>
<DIV>which would seem even more limiting.</DIV>
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<DIV>> I can say that if this were acceptable for your purposes then
the</DIV>
<DIV>> subtag could also be useful for Cornish. In cornish we have</DIV>
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<DIV>> Old Cornish (which is a different language)</DIV>
<DIV>> Middle Cornish c. 1500</DIV>
<DIV>> Tudor Cornish c. 1600 (Jordan's Creacyon an Bës 1611)</DIV>
<DIV>> Late Cornish c. 1700</DIV>
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<DIV>You need to help me out here. I don't understand why this use of
'tudor'</DIV>
<DIV>would be acceptable to you while the use of 'western' to mean
"Western"</DIV>
<DIV>varieties of diverse languages would not. I'm not familiar with
Cornish;</DIV>
<DIV>were the changes from the Tudor to Late periods similar to the
changes</DIV>
<DIV>from EModE to Modern English?</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">--<BR>Doug
Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14<BR>www.ewellic.org |
www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell
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