Reminder: ISO 639-3 changes are coming

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Sun Nov 15 22:38:16 CET 2009


Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:

>> The fuzzy part, of course, is "must have a literature."  The overly 
>> ambitious language inventor might try to claim that his translations 
>> of "Happy Birthday to You" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb," posted on 
>> his Web site, constitute a literature.
>
> That is most certainly not the intent of ISO 639-3. The intent is that 
> there needs to be content exchanged in an existing, open user 
> community.

Of course.  But this evidently wasn't clear to the creator of Auriongx.

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