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Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Sat May 5 01:46:22 CEST 2011
> Peter Constable wrote: >> There are various distinct issues: >> >> 1. providing enough description to make reasonably clear the intended >> denotation >> >> 2. providing a preferred display name (in language X, or an >> autoglottonym) for the language >> >> 3. providing a comprehensive set of names that might be the way a user >> might expect (e.g. terms that they might use to search for the >> language in a language picker UI) >> >> 4. providing translations of terms in 2 or 3 in various languages >> >> 5. providing an exhaustive listing of names known to ever be used for >> the language in linguistic documentation (for purposes of >> documentation, not for use in any ICT implementation) >> >> Certain #1 is within the scope of the LSTR. It's not clear that any of >> the others are in scope. > I think it should be obvious that neither #4 nor #5 is being attempted > here, nor really #3 in the true sense of "comprehensive." Slovene is > certainly "a" preferred display name for this language, so maybe #2. Agreed with Doug that this seems to be a "preferred display name." > Clearly the ISO 639 folks (both -2 and -3) have provided, and the > Registry has carried over, many additional names that are sometimes just > alternative spellings (Kuanyama and Kwanyama), sometimes regionally > preferred names (Catalan and Valencian), and sometimes... well, I don’t > know what value is added (Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish). Of course > these are ISO 639's responsibility and not strictly ours. I myself am somewhat "lukewarm" (meaning not particularly excited) about our adding this description, since I'm not sure whether it's within scope either, but I feel safest deferring to the rest of the list as to what's in scope regarding the added description.
. > I won't fight hard over this one if it's going to derail Tomaž's other > three proposals. Yes I agree; the other three registrations should go through regardless, in my opinion also.
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