LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: Anglish
Kent Karlsson
kent.karlsson14 at telia.com
Tue Jan 17 08:50:23 CET 2012
Den 2012-01-17 02:02, skrev "John Cowan" <cowan at mercury.ccil.org>:
> Doug Ewell scripsit:
>
>> Like Europanto, each speaker of Anglish will devise his own vocabulary
>> and mixture, perhaps on the spur of the moment. It may depend on the
>> target audience or be more random than that. There won't be a standard
>> dictionary or exemplar text. The question is whether it constitutes a
>> "well-recognized variation", as BCP 47 puts it.
>
> As I pointed out, there are English-Anglish and Anglish-English wordbooks
> at http://anglish.wikia.com that are helpful, though they lack a word for
> "idiosyncrasy". I have been wielding them to craft these errandwrits.
Even so, I still think I side with Doug on this. It does not seem to be a
well-established variant. (B.t.w. Europanto was a pure joke; we are
fortunate to not even have a deprecated code for it, narrowly avoided.)
/Kent K
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