Fw: Erzgebirgisch Classification Question

[John Cowan]

Peter Constable scripsit:

> > 639-2's job is not to "confirm" 639-3.  It is to provide a useful
> > subset
> 
> Lest someone infer that you consider 639-3 and 639-5 not to be useful,
> let me suggest different wording: a subset considered useful for
> certain application scenarios or user communities -- e.g. MARC adopts
> the 639-2 subset for its purposes.

Quite.

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