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<p class="MsoNormal">To rein in the discussion from things I think are off-topic and out of scope, particularly complexities across the world’s languages in relation to grammatical gender, I’m sending draft requests to capture what I _<i>do</i>_ intend the
scope of consideration to be.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(These encompass the male/female/neutral gender distinctions. In my original male, I did also mention ‘child’ as potentially related in terms of speech UI resources; I’ll leave that aside for now, though mention again here in case it’s
a factor in how the gender distinctions are considered.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is not a formal proposal: I’m still looking for discussion on the idea generally to see if it’s a useful thing to consider at all.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also, my statement on scope above is not intended to rule out separate discussion of other distinctions such as level of formality (e.g., tutoyer vs. vouvoyer). My thoughts on that are different than for gender, but it is a separate topic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">----------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 1. Name of requester: Peter Constable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 2. E-mail address of requester: petercon@microsoft.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 3. Record Requested:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Type: variant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Subtag: gendmale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Description: male gender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Prefix: *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Comments:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> To be used for capturing a gender distinction in relation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> to the source of content (e.g., ‘Czech as spoken by a
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> male’) or the target audience for content (e.g.,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> ‘applicable to a male Czech user’).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: male gender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 5. Reference to published description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> of the language (book or article):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 6. Any other relevant information:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> This subtag is not intended for capturing grammatical
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Gender of wordforms, morphemes or other such usage
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> pertaining to grammatical gender. An utterance may use
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> wordforms or inflections of a particular grammatical
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> gender by virtue of it being spoken by or addressed to
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> a person of a particular gender, and so the notion of
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> grammatical gender is not entirely unrelated. However,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> the intent is to capture a characterization of the
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> speaker or target audience for a content item and not
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> a characterization of the grammatical or morphological<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> structure of elements within the content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> An exemplary application would be in tailoring of user
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Interface elements in a software product or personal
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> information device. For example, user-interface strings
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> or speech assets may be provided with male and female
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> variants, to be selected according to a user preference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">----------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 1. Name of requester: Peter Constable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 2. E-mail address of requester: petercon@microsoft.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 3. Record Requested:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Type: variant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Subtag: gendfem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Description: female gender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Prefix: *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Comments:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> To be used for capturing a gender distinction in relation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> to the source of content (e.g., ‘Czech as spoken by a
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> female’) or the target audience for content (e.g.,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> ‘applicable to a female Czech user’).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: female gender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 5. Reference to published description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> of the language (book or article):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 6. Any other relevant information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> This subtag is not intended for capturing grammatical
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Gender of wordforms, morphemes or other such usage
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> pertaining to grammatical gender. An utterance may use
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> wordforms or inflections of a particular grammatical
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> gender by virtue of it being spoken by or addressed to
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> a person of a particular gender, and so the notion of
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> grammatical gender is not entirely unrelated. However,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> the intent is to capture a characterization of the
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> speaker or target audience for a content item and not
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> a characterization of the grammatical or morphological<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> structure of elements within the content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> An exemplary application would be in tailoring of user
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Interface elements in a software product or personal
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> information device. For example, user-interface strings
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> or speech assets may be provided with male and female
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> variants, to be selected according to a user preference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">----------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 1. Name of requester: Peter Constable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 2. E-mail address of requester: petercon@microsoft.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 3. Record Requested:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Type: variant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Subtag: gendneut<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Description: neutral gender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Prefix: *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Comments:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> To be used for capturing a gender distinction in relation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> to the source of content (e.g., ‘Czech as spoken by either
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> a male or a female’) or the target audience for content
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> (e.g., ‘applicable to a male or female Czech user’).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: neutral gender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 5. Reference to published description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> of the language (book or article):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 6. Any other relevant information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> This subtag is not intended for capturing grammatical
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Gender of wordforms, morphemes or other such usage
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> pertaining to grammatical gender. An utterance may use
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> wordforms or inflections of a particular grammatical
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Interface elements in a software product or personal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> information device. For example, user-interface strings
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> or speech assets may be provided with male and female
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