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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Shawn,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you’re going to reference the RFCs, please note that RFC 4646 is obsolete and that RFC 5646 is the law of the land, er, seas these days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It is always best to refer to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47">http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In this case, the section number hasn’t changed and the text is more or less the same as you quote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-3.6">http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-3.6</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Addison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Shawn Steele<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 01, 2015 12:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ietflang IETF Languages Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Request for new language tag variant.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">(This be me message, no’ me ship nor me captain’s, nor any other in me crew.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="FR">Type: variant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subtag: pirate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Description: Pirate variant of English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Prefix: en (fr? es? Be there more? Me only knows o’ en for sure)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Comments: Pirate variant o' English. Pirates be an illiterate lot that often say “Arr.” Talk Like a Pirate Day be by th’ end ‘o summer in all seas. Thar be many orthographies, pirates be no all ‘like.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thar be many “natter as a pirate” websites. I wants facebook.com ‘n google.com t' mystically know me language so I no have t' board every bloody galleon!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This be to tag Pirate variant o’ the Queen’s English. <a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=pirate+english">
http://www.bing.com/search?q=pirate+english</a> be showing ye all thar is t’ know ‘bout how we Pirates speak.
<a href="http://the-pirate-ship.com/piratedictionary.html">http://the-pirate-ship.com/piratedictionary.html</a> be one list ‘o speaking, o’ in yer natter “orthography”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Likely this be controversial, so me took a carefully ganter a’ th’ RFCs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFC 4646 3.6 – “Possibilities for Registration… Dialect or other divisions or variations within a language, its orthography, writing system, regional or historical usage, transliteration or other transformation, or distinguishing variation
MAY be registered as variant subtags.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thar be no orthography decree f’ pirate, but pirate be a dialect an’ historical an’ other variation o’ the Queen’s English. Pirate may also be a transliteration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFC 4646 3.3 – So far as me knows, thar be no other conflicting entries in the registry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RFC 4646 3.5 – “Variant subtags are usually registered for use with a particular range of language tags”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Me be saying we need pirate fo’ th’ Queen’s English, but me sailed w’ Spanish an’ French pirates.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- X<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(X is me mark, no all pirates be literate, y’ know)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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