- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:41:46 +0900
- To: Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>
- Cc: ietf-languages@apps.ietf.org, unicode@unicode.org, www-international@w3.org, nelocsig@egroups.com, i18n-prog@acoin.com
Forwarded. At 14:19 1999/11/30 -0500, Michael Everson wrote: > Oh, crud. I reluctantly respond. > > Ar 03:48 +0900 1999-12-01, scr$ByP(Jbh Masataka Ohta: > > >> >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. > > >It is a common error to consider handicapped people something so special. > > > >However, they are not. > > Everyone is special. Linguistic minorities, however, deserve special attention. > > >Be cautious, because your error sometimes results in discriminations > >of handicapped. > > I have made no error. And please do not waste your time or mine by trying > to show me that I have done so. You are wrong about the utility of ISO 3166 > codes in combination with other ISO codes, and that is that. I merely > showed another area in which such codes were employed quite usefully. > > >> There are too many Sign Languages to expect 639-2 codes, > > > >You are merely arguing that there are too many languages to expect > >639-2 codes. > > There is no user requirement for unique codes for all of the world's Sign > Languages. The users are satisfied with "sgn" with extensions. > > >You can label all the languages in the world with ISO 3166 codes > >and additional strings. > > The users of Sign Languages have seen the scheme we introduced satisfy the > user community and satisfy, economically, the RA of ISO 639-2. Note that > not all of the Sign Languages in > http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso639/sign-language.html (which you > apparently have not read) are languages used by deaf people. Plains Sign > Talk and Monastic Sign Language are used by hearing people. > > Michael Everson * Everson Gunn Teoranta * http://www.indigo.ie/egt > 15 Port Chaeimhghein $B%X(Jochtarach; Baile $B%A(Jtha Cliath 2; $B%N(Jire/Ireland > Vox +353 1 478 2597 ** Fax +353 1 478 2597 ** Mob +353 86 807 9169 > 27 P$BaJ(Jrc an Fh$BqJ(Jthlinn; Baile an Bh$B…U(Jhair; Co. $B%A(Jtha Cliath; $B%N(Jire > > > > #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
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