Reminder: Ulster Scots

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Tue Apr 6 18:42:37 CEST 2010


I agree with that summary, Doug. Just because V is registered doesn't mean
that all "siblings" of V need to be registered.

But for for the prefix model of BCP47 to work well, the obvious "parents" of
V should be registered. For example, suppose that I wanted to register
Beckmeier's orthography of Valley Girl English (as opposed to Tedesco's or
Humphrey-Brookrock's). It doesn't mean that I need to have Tedesco's
or Humphrey-Brookrock's registered also, but it does mean that I should
register Valley Girl English, so that we can have en-US as a prefix
for valygirl, and en-US-valygirl as a prefix for beckmeie.

en-US-valygirl-beckmeie

I don't have to register -tedesco or -humbrook at that point (or ever, if
nobody ever has a need for it), but we should ensure that valygril is
registered, because we can't do it later and require as a prefix. That is,
we can't ever narrow a prefix, so we can't later register valygirl and have
it be required for beckmeie.

Just in terms of usability as well, we want to have the more general form
available as well as the more specific.

Mark

— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 08:09, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> I burbled:
>
> > For any given language L with some variety that can be represented by
> > the variant subtag V, the tag "L-V" does not mean that the content
> > thus tagged is *not* in variant V.  It only means the content is *not
> > necessarily* in variant V.
>
> Sorry, that was supposed to be:
>
> For any given language L with some variety that can be represented by
> the variant subtag V, the tag "L" by itself, without the subtag 'V',
> does not mean that the content thus tagged is *not* in variant V. It
> only means the content is *not necessarily* in variant V.
>
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