Re: [Moderator Action] Re: Official ISO 3166 country codes online

Forwarded.

At 08:12 1999/11/30 -0500, Michael Everson wrote:
> Ar 10:08 +0900 1999-11-30, scr$ByP(Jbh Masataka Ohta:
> >Michael;
> >
> >> Ar 09:29 +0900 1999-11-29, scr=EDobh Masataka Ohta:
> >>
> >> >> Recently we have requested the ISO 639-2 RA to add a single 3-letter code
> >> >> for Sign Languages (deaf and otherwise). This single code can be combined
> >> >> with ISO 3166-1 country codes and ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes usefully.
> >> >
> >> >And it unnecessarily distinguish same Sign Languages in different
> >>countries=
> >>
> >> It does _not_. Sorry, but you are dead wrong. Sign Languages _are_
> >> different in different countries; and some countries have more than one.
> >
> >It's not a counter argument to my points.
> >
> >However, you now are confirming the obvious fact that Sign Languages are
> >no different from spoken languages that ISO 3166 is equally useless to
> >them.
> >
> >Thank you for denying yourself to have mentioned Sign Languages.
> 
> Clearly Masataka Ohta has no idea what he is talking about. This is
> beginning to annoy me, and so this is my last statement on the matter.
> There are too many Sign Languages to expect 639-2 codes, and it is
> convenient to describe them as "sgn". The Deaf community approved this and
> the 639-2 RA is likely to. It is necessary to differentiate between them,
> however, and, since in almost all cases the difference is identically
> coterminous with ISO 3166 entities, it is extremely sensible to describe
> them as presented in
> http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso639/sign-language.html. Where a
> country has more than one Sign Language in it (Australia, Belgium, Canada,
> US, etc.), ISO 3166-2 entities were used. No problems, little if any
> ambiguity, and everyone is happy.
> 
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Received on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 22:06:29 UTC