Swiss german, spoken

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Sun Jun 12 01:07:37 CEST 2005


At 16:01 -0700 2005-06-11, Randy Presuhn wrote:
>Hi -
>
>>  From: "Debbie Garside" <debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>
>>  To: "'Michael Everson'" <everson at evertype.com>; "'IETF Languages 
>>Discussion'" <ietf-languages at iana.org>
>>  Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:47 PM
>>  Subject: RE: Swiss german, spoken
>>
>>IMHO Requests for specifically "Written" tags and "Spoken" tags will
>>  increase in the future and it may be a wise thing to discuss this sooner
>>  rather than later. This is currently catered for within the proposed 639-6;
>>  if accepted 3066bis (or ter) will (I presume) follow suit.
>...
>
>If you would like to ensure that the language tag registry has mechanisms
>to specifically support this distinction, please take your concern 
>to the ltru at ietf.org
>mailing list, preferably with the specific text you'd like to add or change.
>The WG is very close to being ready for WG last call on the registry draft,
>so delay would not be good.

Oh, I'd really like to say "bollocks" to this notion of "spoken" vs 
"written". A language is a language. EVERY language can be written. 
Representation of dialect forms of written language is not a question 
of written/unwritten.
-- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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