Europanto

[Doug Ewell]

John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:

> The code element is serious.  The language is not.

At least the bogus language subtag "eur" will have a bogus region subtag 
"EU" to go with it.

Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:

> Would this list be up to the task to register 639-3 "languages" on a 
> case by case base ?  Stopping 4646bis until they have a handle on such 
> issues would be suboptimal.

Under RFC 4646, this list is not empowered to register 3-letter langauge 
subtags that do not correspond to ISO 639-2 code elements.

Under RFC 4646bis, this list will not be empowered to register 3-letter 
langauge subtags that do not correspond to ISO 639-2 or 639-3 code 
elements.

Besides that, I seriously doubt we want to get into the business of 
picking and choosing among 7,200 new ISO 639-3 languages.  They have 
made mistakes before (Amerax) and they will doubtless make mistakes 
again, but do we have the resources and expertise to say we can do their 
job better?

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