acade - LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

[Peter Constable]

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson

Michael Everson wrote:

> "Academy" by itself is too vague, and could apply to any country.

I agree.


Mark earlier wrote:

MD> I asked for the native Belarusian equivalent and it is (romanized) "akademic".

So, how about "beakad": it makes use of the standard Romanization and is completely freed of the vagueness of "academy".

I know, someone will likely complain that it has redundant information by including "be". But these are only arbitrary symbols -- "x9wp7ss" would do just as well at representing the intended semantic -- though we do like to go for a tag with some mnemonic qualities. If you want mnemonic without any "be" redundancy, then the only alternatives are something like "YYYYakad", using an arbitrary date (per Yury's comments), or something like "akademic" which is mnemonic of a fairly generic semantic and not the narrow semantic that's intended.



Peter