Humphrey Southall wrote:
> At 20:39 10/03/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>> Without wishing to appear a linguistic imperialist or politically
>> incorrect,
>> I would argue for the primacy of Middle English for ME. I've no idea
>> what
>> you could use for Mende. Perhaps you could call it Mnd to avoid
>> offending
>> feminists (as "MEN" doubtless would), though Mnd is the Dutch/German
>> abbreviation for Middle Dutch, so that should perhaps be left alone as
>> well.
>
> I have no particular view about this at all -- it is the International
> Standards Organisation you need to argue with! My project just tries to
> please as many people as it can, although working cross-domain makes this
> hard!
>
At the risk of unhelpfully stating the obvious, it is clear that two fields
are needed, one containing the ISO three-letter code, and another containing
the abbreviations (or possibly the names not abbreviated) for languages
recognised by (and actually of use to) linguists and onomasts.
John Briggs
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