- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:48:58 +0900
- To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Forwarded. At 19:34 1999/11/30 -0500, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Michael; > > > >> >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. > > > > > >I can understand your error. > > > > I have made no error. > > That's another error. > > > >It is a common error to consider handicapped people something so special. > > > > > >However, they are not. > > > > Everyone is special. Linguistic minorities, however, deserve special attenti= > > on. > > So, you are saying Sign Languages should have distinguished names. > > OK. > > > There is no user requirement for unique codes for all of the world's Sign > > Languages. The users are satisfied with "sgn" with extensions. > > Assuming you have not made any error here, which means you made > an error stating "Everyone is special...", so what? > > It has nothing to do with ISO 3166. > > Masataka Ohta > > > #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
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