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 ?

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