On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > Thanks Karl. This always bugs me. We currently have > absurdities such as la-IT for Rennaiscance Latin. > What has the country code for Italy got to do with a > variety of a language belonging to a historic period?
latin, as I'm sure you know, was a living language for hundreds of years, perhaps even thousands. The particular - I hesitate to call it "dialect", but i don't know a better word - embodied in mlatin.hash derives from the journals of an Italian mathematician, thus the choice of Italy for country code. > Well there's no country code for "rennaissance" you > may say. Exactly. No country to me means don't put > a country - not pick whatever country. At the time I didn't realize that was a valid solution... Ciao, Frank On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, ericzen wrote: > la-RO perhaps? or la-SPQR ? Francis James Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] `Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. `Sapphire and Steel have been assigned...'
