LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R4): pinyin
Yury Tarasievich
yury.tarasievich at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 21:05:47 CEST 2008
Phillips, Addison wrote:
> AP> If you’re going to go down the year path at all costs, I would tend
> to prefer that you get rid of the ugly and unhelpful ‘acad’ part
> altogether. The subtag ‘1959’ is consistent with other similar subtags
> (1901, 1996, 1994). If you don’t know what the subtag means, you
> probably shouldn’t be using it and I think that ‘acad’ doesn’t add
> anything outside the context of this email thread.
If /1959acad/ fails, the /1959/ seems feasible, too. Or one could go
with /1959by/, to be extra-specific.
-Yury
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