Proposed general model for Serbo-Croatian continuum
Doug Ewell
doug at ewellic.org
Fri Nov 22 02:59:47 CET 2013
Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
>> The prefix should be specified as 'sr', or possibly all of 'sr’,
>> 'sr-Latn', 'sr-Cyrl'.
>
> All would be better.
Disagree. We only need 'sr'.
If you have 'sr' alone, you don't need the additional prefixes with
script subtags. Prefix fields for variants aren't necessarily the
complete language tag that precedes the variant. Section 3.1.8 makes a
point of this:
> Although the 'Prefix' for 'rozaj' is "sl", other subtags might appear
> between them. For example, the tag "sl-IT-rozaj" (Slovenian, Italy,
> Resian) matches the 'Prefix' "sl".
The use case for script subtags is exactly the same as that shown for
region subtags.
And you wouldn't want to have only 'sr-Latn' and 'sr-Cyrl', because
these subtags (which denote varieties in pronunciation) very clearly
could be used for spoken content, or content where the script is
irrelevant.
The place where you want a Prefix field to include a script subtag is
where you want to emphasize that the script subtag must be present. I
believe that was the reason for giving, for example, 'hepburn' a Prefix
of "ja-Latn" but not "ja" -- to show a strong preference for prefixing
'hepburn' with "ja-Latn" including the 'Latn' script subtag. That is not
desirable for 'ekavsk' and 'ijekavsk'.
There is also the case of a variant whose Prefix field includes another
variant, as, for example, 'biske' with a Prefix of "sl-rozaj". The
intent here is to discourage taggers from creating "sl-biske", or worse
yet, "sl-biske-rozaj". This is not the situation here, however.
The only thing "all" would accomplish for these new variant records is
to add unneeded redundancy.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
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