Sign languages
Mark Davis
mark.davis at icu-project.org
Tue Feb 21 17:05:51 CET 2006
2) Backward compatibility matters.
What exactly do you mean? Nobody's talking about removing the current
grandfathered tags, or any subtags.
Mark
John Cowan wrote:
> Mark Davis scripsit:
>
>
>> I agree with Doug's comments. The use of "sgn-xxx" was never a
>> particularly way of tagging, since it implies that there is some level
>> of shared comprehension between "sgn-xxx" and "sgn-yyy". Much better
>> would be "xxx-signed", etc.
>>
>
> 1) There is some degree of mutual intelligibility, as I noted. 2) Backward
> compatibility matters.
>
>
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