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[John Cowan]

Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:


> There is a point of view that says that *all* such identifiers (for 
> countries, languages, etc.) should just be randomly generated strings for 
> the kind of reasons mentioned. (Not that I'm arguing for that.)

It is often suggested that meaningless identifiers are more stable
than Real World names.  I would point out that while no meaningless
identifier has been in use for as much as two centuries, the
name "Roma" (of the city, not the people) has had a stable
referent for the last 2755 years.

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