- From: by way of Martin Duerst <havard@hjulstad.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:54:58 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
Thank you, Michael. PLEASE let us NOT have the Saami/Sami/S疥i discussion repeated again! H蛆ard ------------------------- H蛆ard Hjulstad mailto:havard@hjulstad.com Solfallsveien 31 NO-1430 ナs, Norway tel: +47-64944233 & +47-64963684 mob: +47-90145563 http://www.hjulstad.com/havard/ ------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Michael Everson [mailto:everson@evertype.com] Sent: 17. februar 2002 16:57 To: Scripts@sesame.demon.co.uk Cc: alona@c2i.net; Peter_Constable@sil.org; unicode@unicode.org; unicore@unicode.org; ietf-languages@eikenes.alvestrand.no; iso639@dkuug.dk; langtag@unicode.org; www-international@w3.org; locales@yahoogroups.com; i18n-prog@yahoogroups.com; Trond.Trosterud@hum.uit.no; havard@hjulstad.com; Scripts@sesame.demon.co.uk; Tagging@sesame.demon.co.uk; Webbing@sesame.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: (iso639.448) SV: Analysis of ISO 639 and mappings to SIL Ethnologue At 12:47 +0000 2002-02-17, John Clews wrote: >In message <200202170147.CAA08209@dkuug.dk> "Audun H. Lona" writes: > >> The term "saami" should be replaced with "sami" as in the 639 original >> document (i hope). > >Actually, that's not the case. > >1. All the Saami language councils have preferred to use the name >"Saami" rather than "Sami" when using the name in English. John this has been argued a thousand times. The preferred form of the word, as found on page 1644 of the New Oxford Dictionary of English (2001) is "Sami", with no accent. "Saami" does not appear in this dictionary, and in any case should be avoided because people may hypercorrect it to S蚓i, confusing it with equivalences like ナlborg and Aalborg. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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