Principles of Operation (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REQUEST FORM, Erzgebirgisch)

[John Cowan]

Doug Ewell scripsit:

> The Registry does not say that 'gem' indicates "all varieties of German" 
> or that it does not.  It says: "Description: Germanic (other)".

With the "(other)" destined to go away.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org   http://ccil.org/~cowan
"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."