BCP47 Appeals process

David Starner prosfilaes at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 19:48:24 CEST 2008


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Yury Tarasievich
<yury.tarasievich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find this unconvincing.
>
> Such reasoning effectively forbids about every meaningful and short
> description of language variant/lingual norm etc.
> Lots of those were codified in academies,

Precisely.

> It's only the *sub*-tag, it has *no* meaning
> per se, without its main tag.

That's wrong; if this tag gets registered, -akadem or whatever will
mean the Belarusian Academic orthography. de-akadem will be absurd but
legal, meaning the Belarusian academic orthography of German.


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