Well since people are being so fussy, but there is no reason to be because if people only knew the cultural point and the details about DLS they'd know it's necessary. People agree there should be one but other don't (which are supprisingly people who are not gonna participate and don't know DLS nor do they speak Dutch or German Low Saxon) I have given up on this wiki, it's REALLY irritating, I'm sick of answering dumb questions from non-native speaker who vote against the wiki for "problems" which can be solved by letting the community decide on the writing system. People who want to start another dialect Nds wiki, which I really don't recommend, are gonna have a hard time. Same really goes for any wiki!
Servien
2005/10/8, Arbeo M arbeo_m@yahoo.de:
--- Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com schrieb:
It seems very clumsy to have the "binomial" subdomains, as in roa-rup: (which now has its own ISO code, rup), fiu-vro:... so I think it's best to search for possible alternatives. Samogitian and Banyumasan may not have good alternatives, but I would imagine that there's an ISO/DIS 639-3 code for Riparian, which I hope we could use.
Good point, the binomal codes are very clumsy indeed and most people not familiar with the standard they are based upon will probably wonder why're choosing them.
A possible alternative has just crossed my mind: why not use four-lettered codes for languages that don't have an iso code (yet)? That would allow us to pick abbreviations that users can memorize more easily while not interfering with any existing or potential future iso codes. (e. g. "samo" for Samogitian, "bany" or maybe "wjav" - to include all Western Javanese dialects - for Banyumsan, "ripu" for Ripuarian and so forth)
Arbeo
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