Well since people are being so fussy, but there is no reason to be
because if people only knew the cultural point and the details about
DLS they'd know it's necessary. People agree there should be one but
other don't (which are supprisingly people who are not gonna
participate and don't know DLS nor do they speak Dutch or German Low
Saxon) I have given up on this wiki, it's REALLY irritating, I'm sick
of answering dumb questions from non-native speaker who vote against
the wiki for "problems" which can be solved by letting the community
decide on the writing system. People who want to start another dialect
Nds wiki, which I really don't recommend, are gonna have a hard time.
Same really goes for any wiki!
Servien
2005/10/8, Arbeo M <arbeo_m(a)yahoo.de>de>:
--- Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> schrieb:
It seems very clumsy to have the
"binomial"
subdomains, as in roa-rup:
(which now has its own ISO code, rup), fiu-vro:...
so I think it's
best to search for possible alternatives. Samogitian
and Banyumasan
may not have good alternatives, but I would imagine
that there's an
ISO/DIS 639-3 code for Riparian, which I hope we
could use.
Good point, the binomal codes are very clumsy indeed
and most people not familiar with the standard they
are based upon will probably wonder why're choosing
them.
A possible alternative has just crossed my mind: why
not use four-lettered codes for languages that don't
have an iso code (yet)? That would allow us to pick
abbreviations that users can memorize more easily
while not interfering with any existing or potential
future iso codes. (e. g. "samo" for Samogitian, "bany"
or maybe "wjav" - to include all Western Javanese
dialects - for Banyumsan, "ripu" for Ripuarian and so
forth)
Arbeo
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