Descriptions for Volapük variants

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Jan 17 21:09:49 CET 2012


Doug Ewell scripsit:

> I think the '1931' subtags are MUCH less mnemonic, and doubt that the
> additional precision (if any) is really helpful for language tagging
> purposes. I would much rather see rigik/nulik or jleyer/dejong or
> schleyer/dejong.

I strongly agree, and think that schleyer/dejong are far and away the best
and clearest.

> All of that said, I know basically zero Volapük, so that should be
> factored into any decisions about consensus.

Hardly anyone does, though there is now a Vükiped at vo.wikipedia.org.

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