From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 13:37:12 EDT
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> Thanks Karl. This always bugs me. We currently have
> absurdities such as la-IT for Rennaiscance Latin.
> What has the country code for Italy got to do with a
> variety of a language belonging to a historic period?
latin, as I'm sure you know, was a living language for hundreds of years,
perhaps even thousands. The particular - I hesitate to call it "dialect",
but i don't know a better word - embodied in mlatin.hash derives from the
journals of an Italian mathematician, thus the choice of Italy for country
code.
> Well there's no country code for "rennaissance" you
> may say. Exactly. No country to me means don't put
> a country - not pick whatever country.
At the time I didn't realize that was a valid solution...
Ciao, Frank
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, ericzen wrote:
> la-RO perhaps?
or la-SPQR ?
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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