On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Oh, please don't bring the langcom fights here,
too :)
Fights? I don't see any :P
Both of you are right: on the one hand, ISO codes are
often more political
than linguistically correct. On the other hand, we don't have anything
better, except making ad hoc decisions based on scientific articles about
languages that most of us don't know. And this simply doesn't scale.
Can we do anything to improve the ISO 639 process?
We can. We can build the new infrastructure, which would include more
careful work with language diversity. I see this group and the
initiative in that direction. If JAC would be willing to use the
benefits of our work, their process would be improved. If not, we'd
have our process.