On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 May 2017, at 17:13, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Because SIL is at least sensible enough to have the policy to change >> derogatory codes, while Congress Library is too white to be able to >> comprehend that. > > You do not have any idea what you are talking about.
Obviously. However, at least they understand that there are offensive language names [1]. Although, thanks for the information, they are also too white, as well, to recognize that there is a need to change the code if it's been based on offensive name. > Melanin helps to protect us from UV radiation and to permit the production of > Vitamin D. > > I have explained to you MANY TIMES. Most of the ISO 639-2 codes were made > many years ago. No one was trying to insult anyone. No one was trying to push > an imperialist agenda. No one was looking at skin tone variation in Chile. > They were trying to tag data for libraries. Do you understand this? > > I have explained to you MANY TIMES as well that reluctance to change codes on > the part of the JAC has to do with a concern for stability in encoding. > > I ave informed you that I have spoken to the JAC, and I have supplied to you > their response. They looked at this 5 years ago and were not minded at that > time to destabilize encoding. They also said they would consider an > application if one were submitted. > > You persist in arguing with ME about it and all I have done is explain facts > to you. You are still embarrassing yourself. Nobody told here that there are bad intentions. (Just to remind you, Cold War ended ~30 years ago :P ) I told you that you are perpetuating institutional racism [, filled with absolutely good intentions]. If you want to understand what I am talking about, please start with this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism [1] http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/ethno_docs/introduction.asp _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
