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Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Thu Nov 26 01:11:08 CET 2015
On 25 Nov 2015, at 23:50, Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com> wrote:
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> I appreciate the effort to differentiate from the simple term , and realized totally that odgen1933 is too long, however repeating the 1st 3 letters of the parent language tag doesn't help with that differentiation. I'd prefer a different code that people unaware of Odgen's Basic English couldn't possibly confuse with simplified English. Odgenbe. Obe1933. Whatever.
I think en-basiceng is better than en-ogden, and I think that misuse of the tag as in tlh-basiceng is less tempting to anyone than tlh-ogden might be.
> (Though again I think it deserves a primary language tag).
On what grounds? It’s not even a pidgin. It’s just a limited vocabulary.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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