an old item: es-americas

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

Michael Everson scripsit:

> I asked legitimate questions about the grammar of [Latin American Spanish] and 
> no one was able to answer them. I was specific about pronoun and 
> conjugation use. I speak Mexican Spanish. I can tell the difference 
> between it and Argentine Spanish and between it and Spanish Spanish 
> and between those and Colombian Spanish.

I grant that it's an underspecified and written-only dialect, but so is
modern standard Arabic (some political speeches notwithstanding).

> I did the best I could given my understanding of the definition of 
> "language" we use.

The effect of which is that es-mx is now in use instead, thus blatantly
overspecifying.

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uninformed guesses about established conventions in a field of study with
which familiarity is limited, it is sometimes better to stick to merely
observing the usage and listening to the explanations offered, inserting
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