<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> The logistics of how many people will start using it when and for what</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">are a bit overrated, in my opinion. If something has merit as a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">distinguisher, it has merit whether one person uses it or a million.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">The variant tags are designed for <b><i>variants of languages</i></b>, but even there there are limits. For some people, en-US-pinpenmg for "the variant of US English that uses the <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2012/07/pronunciation-0">pin-pen merger</a>" has merit to at least one person, but that kind of fine-grained usage for the variant subtags would devolve into chaos. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">And it is even goofier if you are not limited to <b><i>variants of languages</i></b>, but rather open it up to any category that someone, somewhere, thinks has merit. Pretty soon someone is wanting to tag technical terms used in dog breeding, and so on. Or tagging parts of speech: 'adjectiv', ... Or inflections: 'ergative', ... </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="'times new roman', serif"><div style="background-color:transparent;margin-top:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px"><div></div></div><div style="background-color:transparent;margin-top:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px">Mark</div></font><div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><i><span style="font-style:normal"><i></i></span><i></i></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Arthur Reutenauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org" target="_blank">arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> <a href="http://www.galeriainfo.hu/index1.php?link=muveszeink&muvesz_id=174" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.galeriainfo.hu/<wbr>index1.php?link=muveszeink&<wbr>muvesz_id=174</a> when autotranslated by Google translates “Hosszú György” as “George Long”. Clearly that’s not desirable (even if from one point of view it might be “accurate") — but there’s no way to use language tagging to achieve “protection” of the personal name, is there?<br>
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</span> I also thought of personal names, because that’s the closest analogy I<br>
could think of to binomial names. Clearly someone requesting a subtag<br>
for personal names would have to make a very strong case indeed.<br>
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That said, binomial names are in a way more generic (pun intended)<br>
than personal names, so it’s obviously not exactly the same either.<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Arthur<br>
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